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Offline nudge67

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collective noun for genealogists?
« on: Friday 10 April 09 13:14 BST (UK) »
I was trying to find a collective noun for spinsters (I have eight elderly unmarried sisters at one point in my tree) when I came across The Collective Noun Page:

http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

If we can come up with a collective known for genealogists, we could submit one to that page.

Suggestions, please?

here's a few

A family of genealogists?
A root of genealogists?
A trunk of genealogists?
An obsession of genealogists?
NSW Convict 1836: Peter WIFFIN (alias VIVIAN)
VDL Convict 1841: Richard REES
SA Pioneers (<1847): Hornsby, Wallis, Willoughby, Floate, Mills, Chesson, Degenhardt.
SA Old Colonists (<1857): Messenger, Tyler, McFeat, Ladner, Edwards, Cassidy, Rhodes, Shaw, Waye, Sibly.
SA Colonists (<1901): Jones, Pike, Bowyer, Davey.

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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 10 April 09 14:14 BST (UK) »
A Brickwall of Genealogists!
An Ancestry of Genealogists!
An Archive of Genealogists!

or how about a RootsChat of Genealogists!
Jerome - Hampshire (including IOW)
Parsons - Surrey, Somerset and Devon

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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 10 April 09 15:07 BST (UK) »
Anyone who searched for BMDs at St Catherines or earlier at Somerset House, when manually searching the index volumes was the only way, will know that there is only one answer.

A Scrum of genealogists

David
Living in Berkshire from Northampton & Milton Keynes
DETAILS OF MY NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE
Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 10 April 09 15:40 BST (UK) »
A few more suggestions:

cell
web
tree
clan
kith
tribe
genre
network

Since a lot of our hobby involves detective-type processes maybe we should consider:
a morse
a sherlock
this list could be endless .....


Chirp
AVERY, Berks, BLUNDELL, North Meols, BOND, Wilts,  BRUNDRETT, Lancs, CHORLTON, Salford, DUNKLEY, West Haddon, FOGGIN, Yorks, GRANT, Durham,  GRESTY, Salford, GRINDROD, Salford, HUMM, Bethnal Green, MALONEY, Limerick & Lancs,  MARCHANT, Worcs, McPHERSON, Kent, MELLISH, Finsbury, PERRETT, Wilts,  RAGG, Yorks, RAINSFORD, Staffs, RENSHAW, Salford, ROSS, Leicester, TIGHE/TYE, All, WELLER, Berks, WILKINSON, Wes
Early 19th C Hairdressing & Perfumery
Spittalfields Silkweavers
Glass making, S Shields


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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 10 April 09 15:45 BST (UK) »
With the publication of the 1911, I'd have to say there was...

an Exaltation of Genealogist  ;D
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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 10 April 09 18:25 BST (UK) »
So far I think obsession is the most accurate  :D :D :D :D :D :D
Heap - Holmfirth WRY
Rhodes-Flockton WRY & NE Cheshire
Ridgway- NE Cheshire & Lancahire
Roebuck - Upperthong WRY
Wild - NECheshire
Riley - NE Cheshire & Derbyshire
Greaves - NE Cheshire & Lancashire

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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 April 09 19:44 BST (UK) »
A search
A root
A census
A record

I also thought of brickwall Marky P has that one as well
Wild, Weekly, MDX and BKM
Rayner, BKM
Smith, NTH and ESS

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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 April 09 20:33 BST (UK) »
A parish of genealogists? 

Elin :)
Foxwell (Wotton Under Edge and South Wales), Howell (Stroud & Wotton Under Edge), Jones (South Wales) Merrigan (Liverpool), Kelly (Liverpool) Titley (Lincolnshire and Staffordshire)  Hellier (Somerset and Monmouthshire)           All UK census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: collective noun for genealogists?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 10 April 09 22:57 BST (UK) »
A Frustration of Genealogists?
Meehan - Co Durham, Ireland, USA and Canada
Hopps -  Co Durham and N. Yks
Ward, Mortimer, Littleboy - Norfolk
Angus -  Co Durham
Pyle -  Co Durham and Northumberland
Rowntree -  N Yks and Co Durham
Ridley - Co Durham
Kelly -  Co Durham and Ireland