----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Wood" <phil@filz.freeserve.co.uk> To: <BERKSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [BRK] Strays > A stray is someone who is found in foreign parts! > > For instance a Berkshire Stray is a Berkshire born person found in another > county during a census, or someone from a Berks village marrying one of > those Hampshire lasses in her home church, or Fred BLOGGS of Newbury on a > passenger list for an emigrant ship (or a transport down under), or Sir > Michael BERKSBLOKE receiving a mention in a newspaper article for his > pioneering work in rat dentistry at Strathforth University. > > Berks FHS maintain an index of such folk. If you have traced Berkshire born > family members out of the county and can contribute marriages, deaths etc, > etc. then send them to Strays@berksfhs.org.uk - please include the source of > the information (eg. Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh PR) as future researchers > finding the reference in the index may well want to follow up and see the > original. > > They also have an index (the Berkshire Name Index) to hold any reference to > any Berkshire person - any where any time. The criteria for entry are that > the event marked must take place in Berkshire or involve a Berkshire person > and the source of the information must be given. If you have a book on a > Berkshire place that has a name index - then that would be ideal material > (so would such a book without a name index - but the work involved is a > little greater). All contributions are welcome, but it would pay to ask > before you go off and index that old book you have (someone else may already > have done so). > > Phil > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Smith Family" <smith@world-net.co.nz> > To: <BERKSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:47 AM > Subject: [BRK] Strays > > > > There has been some discussion on "Strays" lately. Can someone explain > what this means please? I'm still learning the language of genealogy. > > Thanks > > Yvonne Smith > > > > > > ==== BERKSHIRE Mailing List ==== > > Surname index to Berks 1851 census: > > > www.berksfhs.org.uk/projects/Census1851surnames_files/Census1851surnames.htm > > > > > > > ==== BERKSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Berkshire Family History Society www.berksfhs.org.uk/ > Oxfordshire Family History Society www.ofhs.org.uk > (Both societies cover present North Berkshire) >