Maughan Home
This is a pro-tem landing page for the The Maughan Society website, currently in development and due for initial release before Christmas 2008; see here for our latest update.
The site is dedicated to Maughans past & present and will include pedigrees from Maughan families, candidate names which have not been researched or connected as yet plus details of notable Maughans from around the world.
Did you know the first dawn-to-dusk
transcontinental flight of the
The Maughan Society
So what is the The Maughan
Society about? It was formed in 1998 by
Origins of the Maughan
There are many theories
amongst the Maughans regarding the origin our name, but most eventually point
back to
It has been suggested the
surname originated from an Irish chieftain in the early centuries AD, and that
there are also stories of a travelling Saint Maughan who came over to
The biggest concentration of
Maughans in
One of the strongest lines of Maughans in the US is that of Peter Maughan, who was born in Cumberland (now Cumbria) & worked at the Alston mines before starting his epic journey across to the US and eventually to Fort Maughan in Utah (now Wellsville).
FAQs
The MaughanHome Project; updates
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2008-11-28 |
Society poll has chosen Maughan.info as the primary domain and confirmed the name as The Maughan Society. |
Point Maughan.info to MaughanHome Will software work without being hacked/reinstalled? - TNG - MediaWiki - Ap - mailman lists - issue tracker |
Maughan.info/.biz/.org mirrored to Maughan.ie as a pro-tem measure |
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Yahoo message archive now added to new list; old list closed but still pointing enquirers our way |
Many email addresses bouncing; lost members or changed emails? |
Need to list bounces to list & update |
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Considering opening up TNG for general scrutiny |
Keep existing data as test or live? |
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Maughan Society logo |
Need to find/create one |
Leonard Maughan will coordinate |
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Maughan Society merchandise |
Need logo/crest first – see above Need eternal fulfilment agency or our own online store & backup suppliers |
Need to look at costs/benefits of either option Online store already available to our site – just needs to be set up |
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Maughan Society membership |
Chargeable or not? How much much? Member benefits? |
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Maughan Society site running costs |
How to support ongoing? |
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Maughan Society charter |
What do we need? What form of corporate structure do we need? Where should we incorporate? Officers? |
Look at HMRC charter |
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2008-11-12 |
First update; we have settled on a genealogy webserver package called The Next Generation, which is already in use in a number of web-hosted genealogy sites; we have around 2,000 names in the server right now for testing and all seems well. |
TNG is already in use elsewhere with >1,000,000 names |
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Alongside TNG we have installed a wiki for extended notes, articles etc. The next challenge is to complete the back-linking of the genealogy program into the wiki, and then later to build a public-facing separate front end for the wiki. |
Extending the security model to the public-facing wiki. Public access read-only; updates via logged-in members only. |
MediaWiki is the one used for Wikipedia. |
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We are also testing issue-tracking tools for general research issues. |
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We have been granted a Creative Commons license for the site & our contents. |
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Site security will be based on the model built into TNG; the public can browse but only logged-in members can make updates. |
Access to information about living people? Restrict to logged-in members only? |
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Our study has been registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. |
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The new Maughans mailing list is up and all members from the old yahoo list moved over. We are in the process of extracting the message archive from the old yahoo list and this will be added to the new list archives as soon as it is ready. |
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A dedicated mailing list for the MaughanHome Project Team has been set up, which will help to keep the internal project discussions out of the main list. |
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A test installation of an advanced poll manager is being tested - as one would expect, I suppose J |
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We will shortly be setting up a links-exchange page so we can start getting noticed by Google. |
If you are willing to include a link back to the site here, send us your site link and we’ll add it in. |
linkname : what it is we’re linking to. |
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The Maughan Society is in the process of being formalised, and will be incorporated into an appropriate form once we have completed our relevant research. |
Suggestions for an appropriate formal vehicle for the Society, and where to register it? |
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We’re looking at options for a “front-end” for the site; various CMS options are available including Drupal & Joomla. |
Any user experience on these? Linking their security model into TNG/wiki? |
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