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 Merryl (and Jim) Thanks for the link to this site, although I have seen something similar before. But not sure why you are both having so much trouble locating your names. I found it very easy... 1. Select initial letter from row along top of homepage - in my case R 2. Scroll down through the sets of three letters starts and select the one of interest - in my case Row 3. Scroll down through the lists of surnames beginning with Row until you find Rowberry (or one of the other variantions such as Rowbery and Rowbury). This page gives you a brief summary of how many people they have listed and where, so in the case of Rowberry 355 people, 21 in Canada, 18 in New Zealand, 31 in UK and 285 in the USA; which I know to be well below the actual figures (even of adults alone) (and doesn't include any of those in Australia) but at least it is a start. 4. Click on the surname to take you to the listings. There are quite a few duplicates, so even the total number of people is less than they claim, but you do get full address and phone number. If your surname is not listed there is a link at the bottom of the page at 3 above which takes you to a form to fill in for notification of when they acquire some.... Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Merryl Wells via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "Jim Benedict" <jim.benedict@shaw.ca>; <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 6:45 AM 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.

Hi Polly It is very easy to locate Rowberry using the method you suggest. But a name like Willing is much more difficult, because of the number of names which begin with WIL-. Wells and Benedict exhibit the same problems, hence my alternative suggestion. However, I acknowledge that Jim's suggestion of editing his URL for Benedict is also good, if a little fiddly. 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 12 Dec 2014, at 08:21, Polly Rubery via wrote: > Hi Merryl (and Jim) > > Thanks for the link to this site, although I have seen something > similar > before. But not sure why you are both having so much trouble > locating your > names. I found it very easy... > > 1. Select initial letter from row along top of homepage - in my > case R > 2. Scroll down through the sets of three letters starts and select > the one > of interest - in my case Row > 3. Scroll down through the lists of surnames beginning with Row > until you > find Rowberry (or one of the other variantions such as Rowbery and > Rowbury). > This page gives you a brief summary of how many people they have > listed and > where, so in the case of Rowberry 355 people, 21 in Canada, 18 in New > Zealand, 31 in UK and 285 in the USA; which I know to be well below > the > actual figures (even of adults alone) (and doesn't include any of > those in > Australia) but at least it is a start. > 4. Click on the surname to take you to the listings. There are > quite a few > duplicates, so even the total number of people is less than they > claim, but > you do get full address and phone number. > > If your surname is not listed there is a link at the bottom of the > page at 3 > above which takes you to a form to fill in for notification of when > they > acquire some.... > Polly > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Merryl Wells via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: "Jim Benedict" <jim.benedict@shaw.ca>; <goons@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 6:45 AM > 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. > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 Merryl Here is an alternative way of searching. 1. Enter surname in search box on left. 2. Select an entry for a person, as opposed to a street name, etc. For Willing I had to go to the second page. 3. Click the surname of the person with the surname in question. I get a list which tells me there are 1,401 people with the last name Willing. I am not listed, but I did a postcode search. There are people in adjacent streets listed but not mine. It looks like they have not finished adding the UK data. Willings was slightly trickier, as the Willings entries were mixed up with the Willing entries, but I found one eventually. There are 189, but not very many in the UK. I am reluctant to give them my name and e-mail address for alerts. 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 12 Dec 2014, at 06:45, Merryl Wells via wrote: > 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 > > _____________________________________________ > > 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 All June's suggestion is fine unless you have a surname which has more than 10 pages of results because it looks for a place match first and as there are probably more places called BROOMFIELD than people<vbg> this does not solve the lack of a proper search facility. I am also not listed - has anyone found an explanation of where the data comes from? If you really want to be puzzled go to the home page and use the Postcode lookup - using the "Outward" part of my postcode gives an odd set of streets with an enormous number of duplications - some of these are caused the site using one or more ways of formatting the phone number. Chris Chris Broomfield Broomfield, Bromfield & Brumfield One Name Study -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of June Willing via Sent: 12 December 2014 08:58 To: Merryl Wells; goons@rootsweb.com LIST Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website Hi Merryl Here is an alternative way of searching. 1. Enter surname in search box on left. 2. Select an entry for a person, as opposed to a street name, etc. For Willing I had to go to the second page. 3. Click the surname of the person with the surname in question. I get a list which tells me there are 1,401 people with the last name Willing. I am not listed, but I did a postcode search. There are people in adjacent streets listed but not mine. It looks like they have not finished adding the UK data. Willings was slightly trickier, as the Willings entries were mixed up with the Willing entries, but I found one eventually. There are 189, but not very many in the UK. I am reluctant to give them my name and e-mail address for alerts. 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 12 Dec 2014, at 06:45, Merryl Wells via wrote: > 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 > > _____________________________________________ > > 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, I note some of you have managed to get 10 pages worth, I guess I am lucky with the two pages I have for my ONS. Also thanks for the tip about the search box on the left, missed that the first time I looked and just about wrote the site off as being of no use to me. Will try the * ( wild card ) in my ONS as well and see how many more come up. Regards, David J Grimshaw (or is it Grimason?) Genealogical Researcher of the "Grimason" surname and variations of the "Grimason" surname World Wide. A One Name study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS): 6138 formally 2962 The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some On 13/12/2014 6:46 a.m., broomfield-ons via wrote: > Hi All > June's suggestion is fine unless you have a surname which has more than 10 > pages of results because it looks for a place match first and as there are > probably more places called BROOMFIELD than people<vbg> this does not solve > the lack of a proper search facility. > I am also not listed - has anyone found an explanation of where the data > comes from? > > If you really want to be puzzled go to the home page and use the Postcode > lookup - using the "Outward" part of my postcode gives an odd set of streets > with an enormous number of duplications - some of these are caused the site > using one or more ways of formatting the phone number. > Chris > > Chris Broomfield > Broomfield, Bromfield & Brumfield One Name Study > > -----Original Message----- > From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of June Willing via > Sent: 12 December 2014 08:58 > To: Merryl Wells; goons@rootsweb.com LIST > Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website > > Hi Merryl > > Here is an alternative way of searching. > > 1. Enter surname in search box on left. > > 2. Select an entry for a person, as opposed to a street name, etc. For > Willing I had to go to the second page. > > 3. Click the surname of the person with the surname in question. > > I get a list which tells me there are 1,401 people with the last name > Willing. > > I am not listed, but I did a postcode search. There are people in > adjacent streets listed but not mine. It looks like they have not > finished adding the UK data. > > Willings was slightly trickier, as the Willings entries were mixed up > with the Willing entries, but I found one eventually. There are 189, > but not very many in the UK. > > I am reluctant to give them my name and e-mail address for alerts. > > 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 12 Dec 2014, at 06:45, Merryl Wells via wrote: > >> 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 >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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 >