I totally agree with everything Corinne says! Fiona On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:00, Corinne Curtis via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I think its great that people can join without having to immediately > take the plunge of registering a name. I would have thought the only > requirement of joining was an interest in one-name studies. Its a > great place to learn what is involved, have a rethink about deviants > and variants and the size of your potential study and what that > involves, get access to the "7 pillars", learn about different ways of > recording your research,etc - and then register a study. I think > there are many other reasons you might want to join the Guild without > having "ownnership" of a one-name study. More important though is if > you do decide to register a study, you think long term about what that > involves and how you will pass it on. What I don't think we should be > encouraging is people registering studies without too much thought, > then deregistering them and having them lost (and worst case,wanting > to remove any material that has been lodged with GOONS) when they have > lost interest or done all they want to do themselves. > > John, I suspect you are finding the new site a lot more difficult than > most people because you have been so familiar with the old one, and > had developed your own understanding of what was actually a very > difficult site for most people to find their way around, so its a big > change for you. For others who weren't so familiar with the old > site, it really is much easier to find things you didn't know about > before. > > Corinne Curtis #5579 > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:50 AM, John P Laws via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Hi One-Namers Everywhere >> >> While I am having a growl, Do Dinosaurs growl or roar GRRR! (a beef >> Whatever?) about the new site. Can I ask - Why is there a link to how to >> join, - inside the pay-wall? >> >> And why is it is NOT necessary to register a study name in order to join? >> (inside the pay-wall), surely that makes us into a general Family History >> Society in competition with many others out there. >> >> Surely it should say (outside the pay-wall) that it IS necessary to register >> a study name in order to join. which makes us what we claim to be a Guild of >> One-Name Studies, nothing less - nothing more. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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