There is a secret way to move more quickly through the list. For example, for Benedict, there are 169 pages (!) of Benedict's. The first page is at: http://www.locatefamily.com/B/BEN/BENEDICT-1.html On that page at the top, it tells me that there are 13,489 people with the last name Benedict. But just below that, it offers me the choice to click (move to) pages 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 28. If I click on the link to page 28 and go there, then the range of clickable page numbers changes. #28 is in the middle, and I could then choose pages 18 through 40. And so on. So you can quickly move up and down the page range. Or, if you want to, just change the URL by editing part of it. My Benedict page #28 is at URL: http://www.locatefamily.com/B/BEN/BENEDICT-28.html If I want to leap to page #123, I would edit the 28 in the URL to be 123 and then hit the enter button. So I did a quick check. The first page for wells, just by editing the URL, appeared at: http://www.locatefamily.com/W/WEL/WELLS-1.html Took me 10 seconds to get there. You have 129,042 people with the last name of Wells; listed over 1,614 pages. To move around, edit the "1" (one) to become, say, half-way, or "807" and then work your way in either direction. What this needs is a filter on both the surname and the geographical region and then it could be more useful. But yes, 13,489 is an awful lot of Benedict's (or Wells). And I'm not prepared to phone and write to each of them for the sake of the Study. It could be a useful tool. If for example, you know there were several "Wells" in a particular smaller community, this tool allows you to enter the postal /zip code, pull them up and do a count. You could then get a distribution of the living descendants of a particular surname this way. If that were of interest in your study, that is. This is a good cure for insomnia, Jim Benedict ======================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Merryl Wells [mailto:merryl.wells@ntlworld.com] Sent: December 11, 2014 11:46 PM To: Jim Benedict; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website Hi, As you said, would be a long, long night to try and find someone. Having to look through thousands of WEL to find Wells was not a good idea, my finger slipped pressing the keys and I couldn't go back one page. Thought I'd try GOL for Gollick, started that but got cramp in my shoulder so have given up! Would be slightly easier if the index consisted of the first four letters rather than three! From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 4:26 AM Subject: [G] A family location lookup website > Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the world? > Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want to plow > through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living > individuals? > Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, > Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the > search > website for you. > > Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: > http://www.locatefamily.com/ > > It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal code, > including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This was > the > Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once you find > it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map link. > > It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. This > seems > to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar > searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do you get > only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can locate > your > wayward spouse. > > The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries > starting > with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people starting > with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in the > lists. It is going to be a long, long night. > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > ======================================================== > > > _____________________________________________ > > 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, Jim has the right idea of how to find a particular person. I've now found the Wells I was seeking by putting the full surname into the find 'box' on the extreme left which takes you to a list of surname finder sites, so just find this site which gives the surname and number of entries. Use the url at the top and change the number within it to about half way through, i.e. if there are 180,000 try 9,000 then go back or forward in 1000's or 100's, the first names are in alphabetical order. If you were used to the index books at St. Catherine's House you will already be experienced at guessing approximately where the name should appear :>) By the way I was amazed at the large number of supposed surnames where there was only one person with such a name, whether their surname was dying out or a new 'made-up' surname! By my method I tried the surname of Malenoir to receive a nil result and Aufenast only two in Germany, although there are families of both those surnames in England. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Benedict" <jim.benedict@shaw.ca> To: "'Merryl Wells'" <merryl.wells@one-name.org>; <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: RE: [G] A family location lookup website > There is a secret way to move more quickly through the list. For example, > for Benedict, there are 169 pages (!) of Benedict's. The first page is > at: > > http://www.locatefamily.com/B/BEN/BENEDICT-1.html > > On that page at the top, it tells me that there are 13,489 people with the > last name Benedict. But just below that, it offers me the choice to click > (move to) pages 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 28. If I click on the link to page 28 > and > go there, then the range of clickable page numbers changes. #28 is in the > middle, and I could then choose pages 18 through 40. And so on. So you > can > quickly move up and down the page range. > > Or, if you want to, just change the URL by editing part of it. My > Benedict > page #28 is at URL: > > http://www.locatefamily.com/B/BEN/BENEDICT-28.html > > If I want to leap to page #123, I would edit the 28 in the URL to be 123 > and > then hit the enter button. > > So I did a quick check. The first page for wells, just by editing the > URL, > appeared at: > > http://www.locatefamily.com/W/WEL/WELLS-1.html > > Took me 10 seconds to get there. You have 129,042 people with the last > name > of Wells; listed over 1,614 pages. To move around, edit the "1" (one) to > become, say, half-way, or "807" and then work your way in either > direction. > What this needs is a filter on both the surname and the geographical > region > and then it could be more useful. > > But yes, 13,489 is an awful lot of Benedict's (or Wells). And I'm not > prepared to phone and write to each of them for the sake of the Study. It > could be a useful tool. If for example, you know there were several > "Wells" > in a particular smaller community, this tool allows you to enter the > postal > /zip code, pull them up and do a count. You could then get a distribution > of the living descendants of a particular surname this way. If that were > of > interest in your study, that is. > > This is a good cure for insomnia, > Jim Benedict > ======================================================= > > -----Original Message----- > From: Merryl Wells [mailto:merryl.wells@ntlworld.com] > Sent: December 11, 2014 11:46 PM > To: Jim Benedict; goons@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website > > Hi, As you said, would be a long, long night to try and find someone. > > Having to look through thousands of WEL to find Wells was not a good idea, > my finger slipped pressing the keys and I couldn't go back one page. > Thought I'd try GOL for Gollick, started that but got cramp in my shoulder > so have given up! Would be slightly easier if the index consisted of the > first four letters rather than three! > > From > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org > GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: <goons@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 4:26 AM > Subject: [G] A family location lookup website > > >> Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the world? >> Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want to >> plow >> through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living >> individuals? >> Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, >> Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the >> search >> website for you. >> >> Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: >> http://www.locatefamily.com/ >> >> It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal code, >> including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This was >> the >> Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once you find >> it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map link. >> >> It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. This >> seems >> to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar >> searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do you get >> only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can locate >> your >> wayward spouse. >> >> The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries >> starting >> with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people starting >> with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in the >> lists. It is going to be a long, long night. >> >> Jim Benedict >> Guild Representative for Western Canada >> Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 >> Calgary, Alberta >> www.BenedictGenerations.com >> ======================================================== >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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 >