@HarryVervet The course is at NIGS: Organising a One-Name Study (starting 2 Dec, taught by Kirsty Gray, MChem, DipCrim, PGCE)

genealogicalstudies.com

I took her Organising a One-Place Study course a couple of years ago when I got a discount via a promo at RootsTech.

They did a flash sale a few months ago and offered the courses at a discount again, so I decided to take the ONS course.

In other news, this week four of my five wills from the September order have arrived. I still have one outstanding ordered in July, and the five that were scheduled to arrive on Halloween, as well as the one remaining that was scheduled to arrive 10 October.

@JanMurphy Interesting, will have to look into this for the future. Let us know how it is!

In other news, England & Wales GRO recently (yesterday?) added death indexes to their site from 1984 to 2019. This gives access to a decade of death records that previously could only be accessed in select libraries in the UK, so if looking for recent events is very helpful

gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp

@HarryVervet There are both good and bad things about the platform the classes are given on. There are class materials you can download or purchased in printed form from the store -- I buy the materials because printing out the PDFs is tiresome. And for the ONS they required the ONS book from GOONS which I wanted anyway.

You turn in weekly assignments and there's a final exam. Many courses are part of a certificate program but there are also electives, which is how I did the OPS class and now this ONS class. I had already seen a webinar from Kirsty on doing a OPS so I was familiar with her as a presenter.

For the OPS study, I got behind and pretty much submitted all the assignments at once at the end. I hope I can avoid that this time around.

@HarryVervet Oh, I see -- the old indexes stopped at 1957, so we have a gap and then it starts up again with 1984. I wonder how long it will be for these deaths to be correlated with the 1939 Register.