The following letter was sent out in July 2002 to 85 people who had expressed an interest
in the surname of GOSLIN or GOSLING etc. over the last few years.
I have received a good, and positive reply so far,
When the overseas letters have been received, we will then,
debate the plan for the future GOSLING group.

 'Check the  Gosling Web Page links at the foot of this page'

Hello
to all Researchers of the Surname GOSLING and all its variant spellings Worldwide.
I start by telling you that I have no known GOSLING relation in my family tree, What I do know,
is that since the time that surnames became the norm, the name of JOSLIN and GOSLIN etc. have, on occasions,
been confused with each other.
We in the JOSLIN family have a very good family history society to help one another;
I have a personal database of all the UK JOSLIN by all spellings and with some pedigrees going back to 1000 AD.
Many of my contacts are in overseas countries such as New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, USA and South America.

Along with Carol Scott from Colchester, England and a few other GOSLING researches
we feel that a central database for our surname records is needed and is long overdue.
We would like to form a GOSLING one name group, with this in mind,
I am contacting as many GOSLIN researches as I can locate,
I have found your name through your request for GOSLIN help in the GRD 2002 and the BIGR 2000 and Carol Scott’s contacts,
I hope you may be able to help me get the idea off the ground.
I am sure that amongst the 80 people I am contacting with this letter, we will find a good Secretary, Membership Secretary,
Treasurer, Database Administrator, Web Master, etc.
 If we do get a One Name group going and we feel the need to place adverts in ‘Family Tree Magazine’, SOG, Goon’s,
the GRD etc and of course Air Mail to GOSLINGS abroad, then the question of funding will have to be addressed,
even the cost of a small web site will need to be covered.
I do belong to other one name groups and the annual subscriptions are under £10 UKP.
I will be covering the cost of this initial mail shot.
The Internet is a great help to us all and I can immediately put most of my GOSLING records (about 20.000)
on to a GOSLING web site if it is thought that this is the way to go.
I would prefer to put people in touch with each other rather than to doing research for them.
What type of records would you want to see?
I would like your ideas and help with the project.
I am attaching a list of all the GOSLING researches that this letter is being sent to, please check it,
and repost it to any other GOSLING family member that you think may be interested in joining us
and we will see how the project develops.
If you are not interested in the project, just let me know, and we will not contact you again.
If you are interested please let me know how you may be able to contribute.
Thank you, this could be the start of something big for GOSLINGS worldwide.

                                                                                            Peter Walter Joslin

Link to some Family History Web Sites you may find useful.

The latest pages are for the Goslings in Essex 1901 census and the Suffolk 1851 Census

1500 English GOSLING Marriages from Boyd's Marriage Index 1538-1837

GOSLING or JOSLING this page gives a good idea of the difference between the the two surnames
and shows in graphical form the distribution of the surnames across England in 1881 

This link is to 3,300 GOSLING MARRIAGES in the UK that are to be found on the IGI.
WARNING This is a very big file and could take a few minutes to appear on your screen.
You are free to copy or print to your own computer.

This Link is to a Page of GOSLING WILLS
to get you started on the history and repositories for  this vital source of Family History data.

This Link will take you to a
GOSLING WAR DEAD site,
British and Commonwealth Goslings who have died in war time, both Combatants and Civilians are recorded,
Read Billy Gosling's Story 1917 Flanders.

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