{"id":3054,"date":"2013-10-31T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","slug":"first-genealogy-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/researchers\/first-genealogy-services\/","title":{"rendered":"First Genealogy Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long career in national newspapers, retiring at an executive level after 30 years, I turned my long-time hobby of genealogy and family history into a second career. I have written for the major commercial family history magazines on a variety of topics, ranging from serious articles to more light-hearted subjects of genealogical interest. I have researched celebrity family trees and helped readers to solve \u201cBrick walls\u201d in their researches.\u00a0 I have my own blog on celebrity genealogies at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roystockdillgenealogy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.roystockdillgenealogy.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have lectured around the UK and in Canada and America and served on the Board of Trustees at the Society of Genealogists for 12 years. I was Commissioning Editor of the \u201cMy Ancestors Were\u2026\u201d series of books and\u00a0 a joint editor of the Society\u2019s Centenary History (2011). In December\u00a0 2012 I appeared in an episode of the popular television series, Who Do You Think You Are?, being filmed at the SoG helping the stand-up comedian John Bishop with his researches.<\/p>\n<p>Specialities:<\/p>\n<p>*Researching in Britain\u2019s largest county, Yorkshire, where I was born and from where many of my ancestors came.<\/p>\n<p>*One-name studies: I run studies of the surnames of STOCKDALE\/STOCKDILL and variants, and WORSNOP, registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. For my services in editing the Journal of One-Name Studies for 10 years, I was elected a Master Craftsman of the Guild in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>*Online research all over the UK, but I no longer undertake travel to record offices.<\/p>\n<p>*My full profile can be seen at my LinkedIn page, also my Stockdale\/Stockdill One-Name Study Facebook page at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roystockdillgenealogy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.roystockdillgenealogy.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact details: Tel 01923 893735; e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:roy.stockdill@btinternet.com\" target=\"_top\">roy.stockdill@btinternet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fees: \u00a320 per hour, plus any certificate\/ travelling costs, etc, but negotiable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years a family historian, specialist in Yorkshire and online research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}