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.

On 16 December 2014 at 00:50, 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? > That link is there whether you are logged in or not. A bit like looking at a book with 8 chapters and you only want to read chapter 2. > > 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. The facility to join and not register a name has always been the case, or at least it has since I joined in the early part of 2002. We want to be inclusive and encourage members to join us. If they then decide to register a name then great. We are not an elitist group or we certainly should not be. We should be flattered that people want to join us, become confident in conducting a study such as a surname/one name study before registering their chosen surname. > 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. Part of the aims of the Guild is to educate others. We in part achieve that by welcoming those who do not want to register a name immediately. In fact many groups, including professional groups allow membership in a similar way. An example can be seen here at the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries which allows members to join without being members of the Worshipful Company http://www.apothecaries.org/faculty-of-the-history-philosophy-of-medicine-parm/become-a-member/ Regards Julie Goucher Guild Member 3925 Orlando & Worship ONS Regional Rep ~ South Devon

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