Dear All, I have just checked locateMyName.com for my own name - HANWELL. I live in North Yorkshire and have relatives in Hull, East Yorkshire and in Beverley, East Yorkshire. None of these are shown. My one-name study name is HANWELL and, from the electoral rolls and the White Pages telephone directory, I know that there are at least twelve Hanwells in Australia. These are not shown either, but from my studies, I would guess that the proportions (and also perhaps the numbers) which ARE given for English towns (shown below) are about right. http://www.locatemyname.com/uk/Hanwell Local (UK) Sheffield = 68 London = 45 Northampton = 30 Stoke-on-Trent = 18 Plymouth = 17 Leeds = 11 Leicester = 10 Hartlepool = 9 Coventry = 6 Newcastle = 6 Global (World) Country Records Estimation UK 243 1089 USA 131 163 Canada 25 71 France 2 6 Norway 2 3 I hope that this helps. Regards, Adrian. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 19 May 2016 06:56 To: [email protected] Subject: GOONS Digest, Vol 11, Issue 222 Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 08:38:10 +0100 From: <[email protected]> Subject: LocateMyName? To: "Goons" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter has reported on the LocateMyName website that gives the count of a name in their records and then estimates what this means for the actual numbers. On looking at it, I am concerned with what it seems to be telling me. For example, it shows the following for their top five countries for the name GRAY - the columns being country, he count in their records and the estimate: Country Records Estimate USA 307,166 382,841 Canada 8,729 24,995 UK 1,758 7,884 Australia 895 11,055 New Zealand 413 4,812 It also indicates that GRAY is ranked as number 222 in the UK. While I have no problems with the numbers of people they have in their databases, the estimate as to how many there are would seem to be wildly inaccurate. Does anyone know anything about this site? Regards Chris ------------------------------ GOONS Digest, Vol 11, Issue 222 **************************************