surname & one-name studies for your family history research

Surname & One-Name Studies for Your Family

History Research

Taneya Y. Koonce | Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society | September 18, 2021

Research of all people in a geographic location

Research of all occurrences of a surname

One-Place StudySurname Study

Definitions


What do they have in common?


1870 US Federal Census, Craven County, North Carolina


Taneya researching in the “Koonce to Koonce” newsletter


ApproachesBenefits

Sharing Your Work Not Your Cup of Tea?

Overview

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Benefits

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Benefit: Spelling Variations

Surname studies provide you with the opportunity to identify multiple spelling variations.


● Koontz

● Koons

● Kuntz

● Kunz

● Coons

● Counce

Koonce Spelling Variations


Benefit: Distinguish Family Lines

Surname Study research helps you understanding the various family branches.


Benefit: Learning Migration Patterns

Surname studies can help identify travel and migration patterns across the world.


https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=koonce


Benefit: Researching African-Ancestored IndividualsIndividuals of African ancestry, as property of white families, can be traced through property records of those families.

Henry Allen Boyd & Family

(Tennessee Virtual Archive)


Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.), 09 June 1888. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016811/1888-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/>

The white families who settled Henry County, Alabama were cousins to the

white Koonce families of Eastern North Carolina. © Taneya Y. Koonce, MSLS, MPH

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016811/1888-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/

Benefit: Social Context (One-Place Studies)One-Place studies are particularly helpful for understanding and analyzing entire communities!

✣ Education✣ Business & Industry✣ Homes✣ Occupations✣ Land Use✣ Streets✣ Cemeteries


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http://brattonclovellyops.com/

Benefit: DNA Projects

https://www.familytreedna.com/group-project-search

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/coon/about


Benefit: Genealogy Goodwill

Your work and efforts HELP and ASSIST others!


Approaches

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Approach: Data Collection & Aggregation

Births Marriages Deaths Census



Identify your source

Download your data

Combine “like” data

Finesse your spreadsheets

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familysearch.org© Taneya Y. Koonce, MSLS, MPH

https://www.familysearch.org/search/location/united-states-of-america/tennessee



Identify your source

Download your data

Combine “like” data

Finesse your spreadsheets

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“Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind or

forgotten.”

Approach: Family Reconstitution


Crow, Amy Johnson. “Beginning Genealogy: How to Get Started the Right Way.” FamilySearch Blog, 31 Oct. 2016,

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/beginning-genealogy-started/.

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/beginning-genealogy-started/

Approach: Variations on a Theme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_(music)


E pluribus unum


A 2009 Cemetery Visit


Randy found

approximately 30

individuals in US

census records

named “Epluribus”

or some variation

thereof

https://www.geneamusings.com/2009/09/epluribus.html© Taneya Y. Koonce, MSLS, MPH

E pluribus unum


Sharing Your Work

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Spreadsheets: Quick Publishing Online

Upload to Google Drive

File →Publish to the Web

Choose Publication Settings

Share URL

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Create A Website / Facebook Group• Free options available (e.g., Wordpress.org)

• Provides a “home” for your study

• Indexed by web search engines

• conversations with surname descendants

• collaborations on research goals


Guild of One-Name Studies

https://one-name.org/


Registration: Profile Page

Additional sections: name origin, name frequency, name distribution, data gathering details, contact information


Registration: Independent Website

https://www.dengates.com/

Members’ Websites Program

Website Formats: HTML, ONSWeb, WordPress, Drupal, WebTrees, MediaWiki, TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Site-Building


My TNG Site

https://koonce.one-name.net/

Guild Library/Archives•physical media such as CDs and

DVDs

•physical material such as books and

one name studies in paper form

•material held in electronic form

provided to us by our members or by

digitizing research in paper form

•archive of member GEDCOM files

https://one-name.org/the-guild-library/© Taneya Y. Koonce, MSLS, MPH

Guild GEDCOM Library

https://archives.one-name.net/index.php


The Guild + FamilySearch

https://one-name.org/guild-of-one-name-studies-is-now-available-at-familysearch-org/


FamilySearch Genealogies

https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees


Member Benefits

- Profile page

- Community

- Quarterly journal

- Webinars &

conferences

- Courses

https://www.one-place-studies.org/


http://www.virtualhistorians.com/name-and-place/

Name & Place

maps the

relationships

between

names,

places, and

sources.


Not Your Cup of Tea?

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● https://one-name.org/

Finding Studies on the Guild Website

https://one-name.org/


● https://tng.one-name.net/synergy/surname_cloud/

Guild Surname Cloud

https://tng.one-name.net/synergy/surname_cloud/


Surnames of TNG

https://tng.one-name.net/genealogies/surnames/


What About the Work of One-Place Studiers?


http://www.oneplacestudy.org/


https://www.geni.com/projects

ApproachesBenefits

Sharing Your Work Not Your Cup of Tea?

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1 is NOT the Lonliest Number


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