General Queries.

Many questions on place names, personal names and surnames can be answered by looking at the information provided in the "standard" reference books. A list of these will be produced in due course. If these sources, or the relevant linked web sites, do not seem to supply an answer, the Society will try to help. It can only, however, deal with very specific queries and these should be sent, in writing only, to:-
Miss J. Scherr, Hon. Sec. SNSBI
c/o Medical Library, School of Medical Science,
Unversity of Bristol,
University Walk, BRISTOL BS8 1TD.

She will pass them on to members who may be able to help. The Society cannot guarantee a rapid response.

English Place-Name Society.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezps/research/EPNS/page1.htm
and Paul Cullen is the moderator of the English Place-Name list EPNL@JISMAIL.AC.UK
To join, send a message to jiscmail@JISCMAIL.AC.UK with the words subscribe epnl and your name - nothing more - in the body of the message.

Institute for Name Studies.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins

Scottish Place-Name Society. "Comann Ain Mean-Aite Na H-Alba".
www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/spnstop.htm

Irish place-name studies group
groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Placename-Studies

The Ulster Place-Name Society
www.ulsterplacenames.org

Guild of One-Name Studies
www.one-name.org

Society of Genealogists
www.sog.org.uk/index.html

The Thesaurus of British Surnames.
This is a project to develop an online database of British surname variants of particular help to genealogists. See www.tobs.org.uk

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