Attention Ms. Prue James, An extraordinary coincidence from the antipodes.

Stan Cook, who lives in Quainton, Buckinghamshire UK recently wrote to me about his village web site http://www.quainton.net

My daughter (Charlotte Bunting Floyd) has a friend who vacationed in Durham, England, and found a postcard with the picture of Basil Bunting, poet.

My thanks to John Bailey of Sheffield for this snippet. (I met John at the Federation Conference at the end of August which we each thoroughly enjoyed from the point of view of the accomodation at Loughborough University, the excellent food and unexpectedly good talks belying their subject titles.)

Where is everybody? I don't seem to be getting very far with the Bunting family. I did find a marriage between Mahala Evans and Thomas Bunting 29 December 1841 Doveridge, Derby. Mahala's parents were John and Ann Evans. Mahala was baptised 20 February 1808 in Doveridge.

The half day meeting shown in the "Events" for September 18th will have a talk decribing what it is in full.

You still want to know more about it because you can't attend?

The Goons have just issued the July-September Qtr,2004 edition. It contains articles on the following topics:- One-name studies without a computer: Intelligent searching of 1837 online.com: The Oxford Seminar about DNA as well as many more smaller articles and readers comments.

A half day, Regional meeting, for Derbyshire and Staffordshire Guild members, is planned for Saturday, September 18th, 2004 at the Priory Centre, Stretton, near Burton on Trent. Talks about the Guild and the FONS organisation will be given and the afternoon concludes with a question and answer session. For more detail contact Ron Duckett, through me, by selecting my name above.

The Federation of Family History Societies has advised us that the web address has changed for the 1901 Census for England and Wales.

The existing web address of www.census.pro.gov.uk is being replaced by a new address, in line with the re-branding of other Public Record Office websites, to reflect The National Archives name.

The new address is www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Please ensure you are using this new web address when you next wish to visit the site.