Hi: Can anyone help me, please, with the occupation of Mary Smith, a 71 year old widow living with her son Charles SMITH and family in Wood End Green, Hayes, Middlesex in 1851. (HO 107, Piece 1697). Thanks in advance Paul

English Origenes case studies would have you believe a simple YDNA cheek swab will lead you to you ancestor's genetic homeland. The "GH" is the location where your father’s patrilineal ancestors lived when the first one took your surname some 30 generations ago. For dedicated surname researchers looking for the origin of their surname it means you will have much more time for gardening or a good book. To get a sense of the quality of research behind a typical Origenes report read this critical review of the Chaney case study which concluded the surname was from Northamptonshire and the Chaneys were not Normans but rather ancient Britons. Two words to the wise, caveat emptor. Note: The analysis below contains blue underlined links to maps and distributions which are central to the argument refuting the claim. http://geogenealogy.ca/chaney/text2.htm

Hi June There are two different types of Google search. My understanding is that the personalised search is the default. It uses cookies to remember your favourite websites and preferences. I think you have to have a Google account for the feature to work. I believe that websites that are "plus oned" on Google+ by your friends get bumped up higher too. When you go to Google search there are some buttons next to the gear lever icon. If you click on the globe symbol you can hide your private personalised results. If you click on the person symbol you can return to your personalised results. You'll see that for many search terms if you toggle backwards and forwards between the two settings you get very different results. I searched for Sillifant without any additional words. I can see that with a surname like Willing you would need to add "family history" to your search terms in order to get any meaningful results! The search results that are returned seem to change on a daily if not hourly basis. If you start a new website it does seem to take a while for Google to pick it up. In the long run dedicated one-name study websites, like Marie's Pepler website, will tend to rank higher in search engine results than Guild profile pages but if you add a page to an existing well established website (eg the Guild or Family Tree DNA) then I think your page automatically gets indexed from the beginning. Best wishes Debbie

Hi Debbie It is my understanding that the order of Google results depends on who is doing the searching. I think that Google orders your results based on what it knows about you, in the same way that you get personalised advertising on many websites, but I stand to be corrected on that. I have just done a Google search for Sillifant family history and the Sillifant Guild profile is result no 6. Of course, I do not know if you used the same search terms. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ On 27 Nov 2014, at 12:28, Debbie Kennett via wrote: > The Sillifant Guild profile page is currently number three in the > Google > rankings, but the Sillifant website doesn't yet appear to be indexed > or, if > it is, it not appearing very highly. > > > Debbie Kennett > Member no 4554 > Cruwys/Cruse/Cruise one-name study >

I also use this site a lot for asylum information. http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm I've also contributed to it from inquests and the Lincolnshire workhouse records. It is worth noting that anyone in a pauper asylum (i.e. the ones built from about 1852 onwards) was being paid for either by the Guardians of the Union in which they were settled or by relatives that the Guardians had "persuaded" to pay for their maintenance. For this reason lists of paupers in asylums with the quarterly payments for their maintenance appear in many of the Lincolnshire Union Workhouse minutes and quite possibly do in the minutes of the Board of Guardians of other Union Workhouses throughout the country. Arguments between Unions about the settlement of lunatic paupers also take up space in these minutes. When a poor law Union covered more than one county e.g. Stamford Union which includes parts of Lincs, Northants, Rutland and Huntingdonshire, paupers were sent to the appropriate asylum for their place of settlement. However, during the 1870s it is clear that many asylums filled up and the Guardians were touting around asylums in other counties to try to get their pauper lunatics housed. Therefore people may have ended up in asylums a long way from their homes. An example from the Grantham Union minutes: 11 May 1893. With reference to the Order made by the Justices of the County of London adjudicating the settlement of Louis Gray to be in the Parish of Belton and adjourned for enquiries the Clerk stated he had done so, so far as he could, but he could not find that the Man had gained a Settlement elsewhere. The Guardians decided to accept the Case and directed the Relieving Officer to remove the Man from Bansted Asylum to Lincoln. [Page 31] Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html http://duncalfonenamestudy.tribalpages.com/ Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alan R Moorhouse via Sent: 27 November 2014 19:57 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] Lunatic Asylum (admission) records now on Ancestry I've not seen it previously mentioned that Ancestry added 2 days ago (just in time for the Medical and Healthcare seminar in London on February 7th 2015!) the following lunatic asylum records: Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books, 1882-1898 (4,332 records) Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers, 1820-1846 (613 records) Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 (842,355 records!) Most actual patient/inmate records appear to be held locally but the admission registers give name, admission date, asylum name and discharge date (which for some was the date of death!) Prior to 1808, asylums were privately run, and an act in 1808 provided for the funding of county asylums. Not many were built though, and many of the poor with mental illness and the criminally insane were still kept in prisons and workhouses. Those with the means made arrangements for mentally ill family members in private “madhouses.” In 1845, the Lunacy Act and County Asylum Act obligated counties to build county asylums for the poor and criminally insane and established the Lunacy Commission to oversee both private and public asylums. Metropolitan licensed houses were private institutions in cities, and provincial licensed houses were private institutions outside cities. County asylums and hospitals could be located in either place but were administered by the county. A quick web search for the institutions where the 13 Farmery "lunatics" were admitted between 1846 and 1912 make it evident that most of the institutions went under a variety of different names over the years, both before and after the creation of the NHS in 1948. For example, the decision was taken in 1809 to build an asylum at Lancaster and this opened in 1816 as the (First) Lancashire County Asylum; the Second and Third County Asylums opened at Rainhill and Prestwich on January 1st 1851. They all ended up, via a number if reincarnations, as Lancaster Moor Hospital, Rainhill Hospital and Prestwich Hospital. A good starting point for hospital names and records in the TNA website http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/searchresults.asp There is an Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals (a Middlesex University Resource) http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm There is another list of all known England and Wales asylums http://thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/asylums/asylum-history/the-asylums-list A copy of Prestwich Asylum Admissions 1851-1901 is online (Gordon, there are a number of Adsheads) but I think these may also be on Find My Past? http://cdn.bbcmagazinesbristol.com/bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare/bonus_content/issue_58/sources/PrestwichAsylum/PrestwichAdmissions.pdf There is some useful background information in The Private Lunatic Asylums of the East Riding http://www.eylhs.org.uk/asylums.pdf For more details of the London seminar and on-line booking please visit the Guild website http://one-name.org/seminar_2015feb_medhealth.html I hope I haven't spoilt Elizabeth Finn's talk! But at least I now know what I'll be putting on my poster display board! Happy Thanksgiving to you from Seattle!! Alan Moorhouse seminar-bookin@one-name.org _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4223/8641 - Release Date: 11/27/14 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4223/8639 - Release Date: 11/27/14

Just a couple of comments from me. There may be some truth in the sense of the Guild web site providing better search engine rankings recently. When I first took over, a few weeks after the site went live, I discovered the basics necessary to get search engines actively indexing the site had been left out. That has been rectified with immediate improvements. Regarding comments such as Jennie's, the answers are complex. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a bit of a dark art, and one that is a constantly moving target. Current thinking is that three words are key: content, freshness, and activity. Content is not about just the words. They might be brilliant, but it's first impressions that count. That intangible something that gets visitors to stay more than two seconds on your page. But, as Jennie has guessed, some sites just inherently have limited appeal. But even so if you Google "Edenburgh surname" Jennie's profile page gets a pretty high result. Freshness is about not uploading something and expecting it to be visited regularly for evermore. If it isn't constantly being reviewed and made fresher people AND search engines will stop bothering to come. Activity is closely linked to freshness, but also importantly includes all those links from other sites back to yours. The web site equivalent of Facebook 'likes', so never miss an opportunity to tell other sites how to find yours. Nigel Osborne - Guild webmaster

I've not seen it previously mentioned that Ancestry added 2 days ago (just in time for the Medical and Healthcare seminar in London on February 7th 2015!) the following lunatic asylum records: Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books, 1882-1898 (4,332 records) Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers, 1820-1846 (613 records) Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 (842,355 records!) Most actual patient/inmate records appear to be held locally but the admission registers give name, admission date, asylum name and discharge date (which for some was the date of death!) Prior to 1808, asylums were privately run, and an act in 1808 provided for the funding of county asylums. Not many were built though, and many of the poor with mental illness and the criminally insane were still kept in prisons and workhouses. Those with the means made arrangements for mentally ill family members in private “madhouses.” In 1845, the Lunacy Act and County Asylum Act obligated counties to build county asylums for the poor and criminally insane and established the Lunacy Commission to oversee both private and public asylums. Metropolitan licensed houses were private institutions in cities, and provincial licensed houses were private institutions outside cities. County asylums and hospitals could be located in either place but were administered by the county. A quick web search for the institutions where the 13 Farmery "lunatics" were admitted between 1846 and 1912 make it evident that most of the institutions went under a variety of different names over the years, both before and after the creation of the NHS in 1948. For example, the decision was taken in 1809 to build an asylum at Lancaster and this opened in 1816 as the (First) Lancashire County Asylum; the Second and Third County Asylums opened at Rainhill and Prestwich on January 1st 1851. They all ended up, via a number if reincarnations, as Lancaster Moor Hospital, Rainhill Hospital and Prestwich Hospital. A good starting point for hospital names and records in the TNA website http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/searchresults.asp There is an Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals (a Middlesex University Resource) http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm There is another list of all known England and Wales asylums http://thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/asylums/asylum-history/the-asylums-list A copy of Prestwich Asylum Admissions 1851-1901 is online (Gordon, there are a number of Adsheads) but I think these may also be on Find My Past? http://cdn.bbcmagazinesbristol.com/bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare/bonus_content/issue_58/sources/PrestwichAsylum/PrestwichAdmissions.pdf There is some useful background information in The Private Lunatic Asylums of the East Riding http://www.eylhs.org.uk/asylums.pdf For more details of the London seminar and on-line booking please visit the Guild website http://one-name.org/seminar_2015feb_medhealth.html I hope I haven't spoilt Elizabeth Finn's talk! But at least I now know what I'll be putting on my poster display board! Happy Thanksgiving to you from Seattle!! Alan Moorhouse seminar-bookin@one-name.org

Very interesting website for names in a place where you might not expect to find them: http://www.irishgenealogy.com.ar/. Many names appear to be of more general British Isles origin rather than purely Irish . . . .you know what I mean! . . . . so take a look for yours! Happy hunting Paul -- Paul Howes www.howesfamilies.com Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide

And I thought it was just me ... I have had my profile page from basically the day I joined and I am yet to receive an enquiry through it. Obviously 'Edenborough' is extremely rare. Jennie Fairs Edenborough ONS 4646 There is more to Edenborough than just Scotland -----Original Message----- From: Kirsty Gray (Sillifant One-Name Study) [mailto:sillifant@one-name.org] Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2014 5:31 AM To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Subject: RE: Thank You & No More Excuses Dear John et al I have a Guild profile - thanks to Roy Rayment for his badgering years ago - but I have to say I have had just one enquiry through the page over the two years I have had it. Better than nothing though I guess, with such a 'rare name'. With my separate Sillifant website, which is not even fully up and running, I have had three people already getting in touch and it's only been lurking about online since September this year. Thanks for your comments regarding Monday with Myrt - yes, a shame the website was down for 25 minutes which happened to coincide with the Hangout. Happens to the best of us and I seem to recall the Guild had a far more significant website outage when Anne was Webmaster some years ago. Sorry that the ethos of The Surname Society isn't for you and glad we managed to catch up, though briefly on Monday. Kirsty On 26/11/2014 14:53, John P Laws via wrote: > Repeat of mail Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 6:01 PM > > Hi One-Namers everywhere > > > I'd like to also echo Tessa's recommendation to start a Guild profile, > but like Vivian, not from the perspective of a Guild member, but > rather from what it looks like from someone looking at the Guild from > outside. I last updated mine at least of 20 years ago. > > > See me and Cousin Russ on Dear Myrtle's Google-Plus Hangout 'Mondays > with Myrt' - 'Wacky Wednesday'' and Genealogy Game-Night' find > recordings on > > YouTube. > > Would be good to see a few more Brits and members of Goons at that, > joining the community and hanging out with us, this Monday we had a > visit from our last Chairman, Kirsty Gray in her capacity as Chair of > the Surname Society, sad that their website had crashed so we couldn't > see it. I for one, am more than happy with the way we have moved on > from our growing pains, and won't be joining them anytime soon > > John Laws > > Registrar > Laws Family Register > www.lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com > www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com > > Member of GOONS for 30 years. > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Since they started Kindle Unlimited I haven't been able to download any free books!. I can't see paying $9.99 a month for "free" books! If anyone knows how to get around that, please let me know On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Maria Robinson via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Well we all like something free, this is Thomas MacEntee's Amazon Kindle > version of 500 Best Genealogy & Family History Tips - 2015 Edition for FREE > through Monday December 1, 2014 (a $5.99 value). > > > > Just key the title in Amazon and you can download to any iPad, Laptop etc > etc > > > > Maria Robinson > > 6393 > > Belcher, Los and Youle > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Researching Drinkwater surname all over the world, any time, any place, but especially Descendants and Ancestors of Paul Drinkwater, born 1789 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England. GOONS #5057 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/drinkwater.html

I am pursuing a family of Sercombes who were in Devizes throughout the 1700s. Are images of Wiltshire parish registers (not just indexes) online anywhere?

Sorry Debbie, my website shows up long before the Guild Profile page. I get first place on google search and second on yahoo with the website Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com ________________________________ From: Debbie Kennett via <goons@rootsweb.com> To: goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 7:28 AM Subject: Re: [G] Subject: RE: Thank You & No More Excuses As Nigel says, search engine optimisation is a dark art but there are many things that we can do to improve the visibility of our profile pages, our blogs and our websites. Google do seem to take note of the number of links pointing to your website, blog or profile page but fortunately there are lots of places where you can post the link to your study. It doesn't cost you anything to add your links to these sites and it's well worth doing. There is a page in the Wiki in the Members' Room which will give you some ideas: http://www.one-name.org/members/wiki/index.php?page=Publicising+Your+Study+o n+the+Web There's also a page in the Wiki on improving your search engine rankings: http://www.one-name.org/members/wiki/index.php?page=Improving%20Your%20Searc h%20Engine%20Rankings Both of these links are very long and will no doubt get mangled by Rootsweb. Here are shortened versions: http://tinyurl.com/publicisingONS http://tinyurl.com/ONSSEO Google+ is also increasingly important for search engine optimisation. Links that are shared on Google+ seem to be given preferential treatment in personalised searches though the processes remain mysterious: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2307518/google-seo-how-google-impact s-search-results Or http://tinyurl.com/l4h9aw9 The Sillifant Guild profile page is currently number three in the Google rankings, but the Sillifant website doesn't yet appear to be indexed or, if it is, it not appearing very highly. On the profile pages it also helps to include clickable links to your other sites. This means including the http:// part of the address in the link. There are tips on managing your profile page here: http://one-name.org/help/website-how-to-pages/managing-your-one-name-study-p rofile-page/ I have made an effort to get my profile page and my blog widely linked. When I search for Cruwys on Google (with the private results hidden) my Guild profile is number one on the list and my blog is number two. Cruse and Cruise are more difficult for obvious reasons! Debbie Kennett Member no 4554 Cruwys/Cruse/Cruise one-name study _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

John The Guild will have a strong presence at Rootstech 2015, and I believe there are quite a few Guild members attending. Tessa Keough is presenting on the subject of "Who does that? An introduction to one-name (surname) studies?)" See Tessa's report to the September Committee meeting. http://one-name.org/members/minutes/2014Sep/25f%20National%20Rep%20for%20USA %20-%20September%202014.pdf In case the link breaks here's a shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/k9cza6r Best wishes Debbie

As Nigel says, search engine optimisation is a dark art but there are many things that we can do to improve the visibility of our profile pages, our blogs and our websites. Google do seem to take note of the number of links pointing to your website, blog or profile page but fortunately there are lots of places where you can post the link to your study. It doesn't cost you anything to add your links to these sites and it's well worth doing. There is a page in the Wiki in the Members' Room which will give you some ideas: http://www.one-name.org/members/wiki/index.php?page=Publicising+Your+Study+o n+the+Web There's also a page in the Wiki on improving your search engine rankings: http://www.one-name.org/members/wiki/index.php?page=Improving%20Your%20Searc h%20Engine%20Rankings Both of these links are very long and will no doubt get mangled by Rootsweb. Here are shortened versions: http://tinyurl.com/publicisingONS http://tinyurl.com/ONSSEO Google+ is also increasingly important for search engine optimisation. Links that are shared on Google+ seem to be given preferential treatment in personalised searches though the processes remain mysterious: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2307518/google-seo-how-google-impact s-search-results Or http://tinyurl.com/l4h9aw9 The Sillifant Guild profile page is currently number three in the Google rankings, but the Sillifant website doesn't yet appear to be indexed or, if it is, it not appearing very highly. On the profile pages it also helps to include clickable links to your other sites. This means including the http:// part of the address in the link. There are tips on managing your profile page here: http://one-name.org/help/website-how-to-pages/managing-your-one-name-study-p rofile-page/ I have made an effort to get my profile page and my blog widely linked. When I search for Cruwys on Google (with the private results hidden) my Guild profile is number one on the list and my blog is number two. Cruse and Cruise are more difficult for obvious reasons! Debbie Kennett Member no 4554 Cruwys/Cruse/Cruise one-name study

Well we all like something free, this is Thomas MacEntee's Amazon Kindle version of 500 Best Genealogy & Family History Tips - 2015 Edition for FREE through Monday December 1, 2014 (a $5.99 value). Just key the title in Amazon and you can download to any iPad, Laptop etc etc Maria Robinson 6393 Belcher, Los and Youle

When I searched your name on google you were the fifth one listed on the first page and it took me straight to your guild page. That seems very joined up. Norman Thornton in Edinburgh -----Original Message----- From: Jennie Fairs via Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 6:00 AM To: sillifant@one-name.org ; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Subject: RE: Thank You & No More Excuses And I thought it was just me ... I have had my profile page from basically the day I joined and I am yet to receive an enquiry through it. Obviously 'Edenborough' is extremely rare. Jennie Fairs Edenborough ONS 4646 There is more to Edenborough than just Scotland -----Original Message----- From: Kirsty Gray (Sillifant One-Name Study) [mailto:sillifant@one-name.org] Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2014 5:31 AM To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Subject: RE: Thank You & No More Excuses Dear John et al I have a Guild profile - thanks to Roy Rayment for his badgering years ago - but I have to say I have had just one enquiry through the page over the two years I have had it. Better than nothing though I guess, with such a 'rare name'. With my separate Sillifant website, which is not even fully up and running, I have had three people already getting in touch and it's only been lurking about online since September this year. Thanks for your comments regarding Monday with Myrt - yes, a shame the website was down for 25 minutes which happened to coincide with the Hangout. Happens to the best of us and I seem to recall the Guild had a far more significant website outage when Anne was Webmaster some years ago. Sorry that the ethos of The Surname Society isn't for you and glad we managed to catch up, though briefly on Monday. Kirsty On 26/11/2014 14:53, John P Laws via wrote: > Repeat of mail Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 6:01 PM > > Hi One-Namers everywhere > > > I'd like to also echo Tessa's recommendation to start a Guild profile, > but like Vivian, not from the perspective of a Guild member, but > rather from what it looks like from someone looking at the Guild from > outside. I last updated mine at least of 20 years ago. > > > See me and Cousin Russ on Dear Myrtle's Google-Plus Hangout 'Mondays > with Myrt' - 'Wacky Wednesday'' and Genealogy Game-Night' find > recordings on > > YouTube. > > Would be good to see a few more Brits and members of Goons at that, > joining the community and hanging out with us, this Monday we had a > visit from our last Chairman, Kirsty Gray in her capacity as Chair of > the Surname Society, sad that their website had crashed so we couldn't > see it. I for one, am more than happy with the way we have moved on > from our growing pains, and won't be joining them anytime soon > > John Laws > > Registrar > Laws Family Register > www.lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com > www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com > > Member of GOONS for 30 years. > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I recently shared at the Surnames Community on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115248071390369725970 a link to a Surnames site (www.behindthename.com). You can register free of charge to the site and make submissions etc. When I explored my two ONS I found Orlando listed with some snippets that I had been unaware of, my second ONS for the surname of Worship was not listed. I submitted it to the site and it is now on there. Have a look at http://surnames.behindthename.com/submit/names/adder/148479 I commented that the surname is registered with the Guild and directed the link to my Guild profile. We can use our profiles in a variety of ways. As our website facility to share some details of our registered surnames, or we can use the profile page like the central hub on a wheel by giving some information and providing the links to our other pages - website, blog, Facebook Group, DNA project. Like a shop window they need to be updated and "tweaked" so they are enticing to people to visit often and I always add the date to the bottom of my profile so people can see it is actively being worked on. We can hardly complain we get no interests in our studies if we do not share that we have a study. I shall be sending out a newsletter to my region within the next couple of weeks and will be mentioning the profiles there. Regards, Julie Goucher Guild Member 3925 Orlando & Worship ONS Regional Rep - South Devon

I've deliberately not added anything to my profile page as I'm working on another non-ONS project at the moment and have very little spare time to devote to my ONS. Even so, in the last couple of months I've received four enquires when previously I'd receive about one a year. Is this just coincidence or are others also noticing an increase in the number of enquiries? If we are receiving more enquiries it shows how effective the new site must be! Ann McDonald Corner ONS On 27 November 2014 at 07:30, Kirsty Gray via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear John et al > > I have a Guild profile - thanks to Roy Rayment for his badgering years > ago - but I have to say I have had just one enquiry through the page > over the two years I have had it. Better than nothing though I guess, > with such a 'rare name'. With my separate Sillifant website, which is > not even fully up and running, I have had three people already getting > in touch and it's only been lurking about online since September this year. > > Thanks for your comments regarding Monday with Myrt - yes, a shame the > website was down for 25 minutes which happened to coincide with the > Hangout. Happens to the best of us and I seem to recall the Guild had a > far more significant website outage when Anne was Webmaster some years ago. > > Sorry that the ethos of The Surname Society isn't for you and glad we > managed to catch up, though briefly on Monday. > > Kirsty > > On 26/11/2014 14:53, John P Laws via wrote: >> Repeat of mail Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 6:01 PM >> >> Hi One-Namers everywhere >> >> >> I'd like to also echo Tessa's recommendation to start a Guild profile, but >> like Vivian, not from the perspective of a Guild member, but rather from >> what it looks like from someone looking at the Guild from outside. I last >> updated mine at least of 20 years ago. >> >> >> See me and Cousin Russ on Dear Myrtle's Google-Plus Hangout 'Mondays with >> Myrt' - 'Wacky Wednesday'' and Genealogy Game-Night' find recordings on >> >> YouTube. >> >> Would be good to see a few more Brits and members of Goons at that, joining >> the community and hanging out with us, this Monday we had a visit from our >> last Chairman, Kirsty Gray in her capacity as Chair of the Surname Society, >> sad that their website had crashed so we couldn't see it. I for one, am more >> than happy with the way we have moved on from our growing pains, and won't >> be joining them anytime soon >> >> John Laws >> >> Registrar >> Laws Family Register >> www.lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com >> www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com >> >> Member of GOONS for 30 years. >> >> >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi One-Namers Everywhere Ann McDonald said "I've received four enquires when previously, I'd receive about one a year. Is this just coincidence or are others also noticing an increase in the number of enquiries?" Well for myself since the internet and email became more readily available, in fact the norm, I've had far less enquiries, and recently zilch. I've had two today one from my Facebook presence, the other via my blog found after viewing me on Pat Richley-Erickson's (Dear Myrtle) Monday's with Myrt'. I know we have a monthly internal hangout with Oz and another with the US, but it strikes me that, as an organisation we should conduct a more aggressive web presence, with weekly international hangouts on similar lines to Pat Richley-Erickson's (Dear Myrtle) - Monday's with Myrt'. I'm sure our own Russ Worthington can advise you guys on running a hang-out on slick, smooth professional lines. If you don't know what I mean watch some of her shows on YouTube'. Can we beef up, just take a look at Roots-Tech 2014 Keynote speakers Rees Drummond, Tammy Repps, Crista Cowen, Lisa Louise Cooke, Ron Tanner, Daniel Horowitz to name but a few. You can find them on RootsTech.org & even re-watch the recordings. We need to Put up or shut up, and I prefer the former, not that I'm any kind of expert in these things, What do you think, I'd love to know (Perhaps not!)

Very good point Corinne - what you say about a *formal* reference. I’ve just set up a FaceBook Group and to my surprise (horror, even), I have 50+ members in less than a week, but very few of them are interested in what I would think of as “hard stuff”, so I like the fact that my profile, though still a bit content light, keeps me focussed. Fiona — 5538 - Duignan & variants On 26 Nov 2014, at 19:07, Corinne Curtis via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I'm not too worried about how many initial contacts I get through my > profile page - in fact I probably get a lot more from the wordpress > blog. What I do like about it,is that it provides a more formal > reference for my study- so someone discovering my blog can then use a > link to the profile page and realise its a formal study and much more > than just one person's hobby. > > Corinne Curtis > Sennett ONS > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Kirsty Gray via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Dear John et al >> >> I have a Guild profile - thanks to Roy Rayment for his badgering years >> ago - but I have to say I have had just one enquiry through the page >> over the two years I have had it. Better than nothing though I guess, >> with such a 'rare name'. With my separate Sillifant website, which is >> not even fully up and running, I have had three people already getting >> in touch and it's only been lurking about online since September this year. >> >> Thanks for your comments regarding Monday with Myrt - yes, a shame the >> website was down for 25 minutes which happened to coincide with the >> Hangout. Happens to the best of us and I seem to recall the Guild had a >> far more significant website outage when Anne was Webmaster some years ago. >> >> Sorry that the ethos of The Surname Society isn't for you and glad we >> managed to catch up, though briefly on Monday. >> >> Kirsty >> >> On 26/11/2014 14:53, John P Laws via wrote: >>> Repeat of mail Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 6:01 PM >>> >>> Hi One-Namers everywhere >>> >>> >>> I'd like to also echo Tessa's recommendation to start a Guild profile, but >>> like Vivian, not from the perspective of a Guild member, but rather from >>> what it looks like from someone looking at the Guild from outside. I last >>> updated mine at least of 20 years ago. >>> >>> >>> See me and Cousin Russ on Dear Myrtle's Google-Plus Hangout 'Mondays with >>> Myrt' - 'Wacky Wednesday'' and Genealogy Game-Night' find recordings on >>> >>> YouTube. >>> >>> Would be good to see a few more Brits and members of Goons at that, joining >>> the community and hanging out with us, this Monday we had a visit from our >>> last Chairman, Kirsty Gray in her capacity as Chair of the Surname Society, >>> sad that their website had crashed so we couldn't see it. I for one, am more >>> than happy with the way we have moved on from our growing pains, and won't >>> be joining them anytime soon >>> >>> John Laws >>> >>> Registrar >>> Laws Family Register >>> www.lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com >>> www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com >>> >>> Member of GOONS for 30 years. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _____________________________________________ >>> >>> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message