[Ansteorra] lost branches
Coblaith Muimnech
Coblaith at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 29 21:23:00 PDT 2010
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superseded by other names and those that had belonged to branches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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