For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. The site is at: bombsight.org It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's Google street view. Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime stories??? About the project ----------------------- The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period. The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into 2 different types of applications: Jim Benedict Guild Representative for Western Canada Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 Calgary, Alberta www.BenedictGenerations.com ========================================================

Number 1 - if you haven't used the Guild homepage search in the last 5 or 6 days - do so now. Nigel has done a fantastic job of arranging the search results to show what the Guild offers on any given surname. Actual details may be behind the paywall but the teasers are there. Much more interesting than just someone is or is not doing a study on the name. Scroll down to the bottom of any Profile page as well. It's a great improvement and I think makes the site friendlier. Number 2 - As you all know, I load material to the WWM (World Wide Marriages Index - now over 150 thousand names and growing) - one of the byproducts of this activity has meant that I have had a much wider peek into other peoples studies. ANd honestly, I am blown away by the sheer scope and magnitude of the work done. You members of the Guild have done fantastic work, a university should be so good. Maps, DNA, Etymology, Data crunching, Story telling, Immigration patterns, medieval manuscripts, farming methods, midwifery, military concerns - if it concerns your surname in anyway, you study it, you analyse it and then produce results others can use. Traditional historians could learn a lot from you. SO may I say congratulations and keep it up . And for those of you that haven't looked at other studies, use the new search and visit some of the members websites - there are less than 700 so at one a day - it's less than 2 years. I have gotten so many ideas I hope to include in my study, maybe I'll produce a movie. Finally I 'm still looking for more marriages - anywhere - anytime Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com