Hello Mark, My Praed/Prade/Praid One Name Study is mainly in Cornwall, so I don't think this is OT. I have traced 2 families back to Lelant (William Praed) and St Erth (Robert Praed) in the late 16th early 17th centuries - I would LOVE to prove these two contemporaries are brothers, but as yet have had no success. You only have to do your best to collect records worldwide. See http://www.one-name.org/onsregist.html which says: ...it is hoped that, over the course of their membership of the Guild, their registered One-Name Study will be extended and developed to cover as wide a field of data as is practicable, as outlined in registration objectives. There is a very active and helpful members only list available to post messages, but the archives are freely available on http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GOONS I have been a member of GOONS since 1999, am in Category C and still collecting data! We only have so many hours in the day! Good luck, Maureen Mark Hattam writes: > I've wondered about GOONS for my surname several times, but have never worked out how to fulfil their registration > commitments ... I'd love to do it worldwide, but some countries have no records or have no way of accessing them. > > Mark Hattam