Branching out to a One-Name Study #12ancestors blog challenge means selecting one of the weekly themes for the monthly blog post. For February 2022, the theme that called out to me is " branching out ". Moving from your direct family lines to a project encompassing all of a surname is a very big leap in branching out. This is essentially how I ended up with the beginnings of a one-name study for Messervy/Messervey. I have previously mentioned how I was attracted to my maternal grandmother's Messerveys both for my own direct line genealogy and the history, chronological and social, that brought the Messervey name to life. Delving into the Newfoundland history and discovering the Jersey presence going back to the late 1600s and early 1700s was enticing. A bonus to the Newfoundland story was the discovery that the Messerveys, for the most part, settled in St George's Bay in the community of Sandy Point. And adding to the story is that Sandy Point no longer