[Ansteorra] lost branches

[Robert Fitzmorgan]

   Thank you so much for adding those.  This is precisely how I wanted the
history wiki to be used.

Robert Fitzmorgan
Kingdom Historian

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Coblaith Muimnech
<Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> A few years ago, Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada compiled a list of all
> the old branch names she could find--those that had been superseded by other
> names and those that had belonged to branches that no longer existed.  I've
> just finished entering them (plus a few others I encountered along the way)
> into the history wiki <http://historian.ansteorra.org/wiki>, creating a
> page for each branch and making a redirect to that page for each name it's
> had other than its current or final one.  It should now be possible to
> search for any name by which you might've known a branch in days past and
> find the page on it.  (Unless, of course, I've missed some. . .which is very
> possible.)
>
> Some of those pages, however, contain very little information.  I've done
> what justice I could to the branches that have disappeared, sketching out
> their arms (if they had them) and collecting whatever scraps of information
> about them the Internet might contain.  But it's up to those of you who were
> there and who loved Middleford or Bisons Run or Black Oak Keep or any of the
> others to share your recollections if you want them to be remembered for
> what made them special.  I hope you will.  The kingdom's oldtimers are
> forever saying its history is proud and storied, and I'd like to learn more
> about it.
>
> (I'm not the kingdom historian or responsible for the design or maintenance
> of the wiki, by the way--just a citizen of Ansteorra who's willing to help
> make that resource valuable.  The ease with which each of us can do that is
> one of the advantages of the system.)
>
>
> Coblaith Muimnech
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