‎I agree it would be good to have a way of identifying fellow members. Back in the Harrington Gardens days newly elected members where published in the Magazine. There was also a mail facility where members could receive and exchange post in the common room, very useful saving the cost of posting bulky documents. The society could indeed even produce a directory of members with contact details and genealogical interests. I suppose there would have to be a facility for members who valued their privacy to excluded themselves from being listed.  Julian Duffus  Sog member 1978 to be present Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Merryl Wells via <sog-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2014 00:56 To: Chris Pitt Lewis; sog-uk@rootsweb.com Reply To: Merryl Wells Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] Lawrence John Verney It would be nice to know who are members of the Society. I can communicate with people for years without knowing they belong to the Society of Genealogists. Very occasionally I recognize the name of someone in the Magazine's Recently Deceased Members column, but that is the only way now of knowing they were a member. A way of knowing other members interests through the Magazine is the Birth Briefs section, now without a contact address. That has included so few submissions recently (2 in Sept. edition) which surely can't be used as a list of all new members? From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Pitt Lewis via" <sog-uk@rootsweb.com> To: <sog-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] Lawrence John Verney >I suppose this is Sir Lawrence John Verney, the former Recorder of > London, who died 25 July 2014. He is among the new members listed in the > March 1941 issue of the Genealogists' Magazine. > > The novelist Anthony Powell joined in the period 1 July-30 Sept 1926 and > died 28 March 2000, so it must be very close between them. > > Of course there may be someone who has clocked up even longer. > > Chris Pitt Lewis > > On 03/09/2014 02:14, jjgduffus via wrote: >> >> I noticed in the deceased members section the remarkable fact that >> Lawrence >> J Verney had been a member since 1941 through to his demise in 2014. >> Julian Duffus >> Sog member 1978 to present ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message