[Ansteorra] lost branches

[Coblaith Muimnech]

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superseded by other names and those that had belonged to branches  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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