I've deliberately not added anything to my profile page as I'm working on another non-ONS project at the moment and have very little spare time to devote to my ONS. Even so, in the last couple of months I've received four enquires when previously I'd receive about one a year. Is this just coincidence or are others also noticing an increase in the number of enquiries? If we are receiving more enquiries it shows how effective the new site must be! Ann McDonald Corner ONS On 27 November 2014 at 07:30, Kirsty Gray via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear John et al > > I have a Guild profile - thanks to Roy Rayment for his badgering years > ago - but I have to say I have had just one enquiry through the page > over the two years I have had it. Better than nothing though I guess, > with such a 'rare name'. With my separate Sillifant website, which is > not even fully up and running, I have had three people already getting > in touch and it's only been lurking about online since September this year. > > Thanks for your comments regarding Monday with Myrt - yes, a shame the > website was down for 25 minutes which happened to coincide with the > Hangout. Happens to the best of us and I seem to recall the Guild had a > far more significant website outage when Anne was Webmaster some years ago. > > Sorry that the ethos of The Surname Society isn't for you and glad we > managed to catch up, though briefly on Monday. > > Kirsty > > On 26/11/2014 14:53, John P Laws via wrote: >> Repeat of mail Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 6:01 PM >> >> Hi One-Namers everywhere >> >> >> I'd like to also echo Tessa's recommendation to start a Guild profile, but >> like Vivian, not from the perspective of a Guild member, but rather from >> what it looks like from someone looking at the Guild from outside. I last >> updated mine at least of 20 years ago. >> >> >> See me and Cousin Russ on Dear Myrtle's Google-Plus Hangout 'Mondays with >> Myrt' - 'Wacky Wednesday'' and Genealogy Game-Night' find recordings on >> >> YouTube. >> >> Would be good to see a few more Brits and members of Goons at that, joining >> the community and hanging out with us, this Monday we had a visit from our >> last Chairman, Kirsty Gray in her capacity as Chair of the Surname Society, >> sad that their website had crashed so we couldn't see it. I for one, am more >> than happy with the way we have moved on from our growing pains, and won't >> be joining them anytime soon >> >> John Laws >> >> Registrar >> Laws Family Register >> www.lawsfamilyregister.tribalpages.com >> www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.com >> >> Member of GOONS for 30 years. >> >> >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> 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 One-Namers Everywhere Ann McDonald said "I've received four enquires when previously, I'd receive about one a year. Is this just coincidence or are others also noticing an increase in the number of enquiries?" Well for myself since the internet and email became more readily available, in fact the norm, I've had far less enquiries, and recently zilch. I've had two today one from my Facebook presence, the other via my blog found after viewing me on Pat Richley-Erickson's (Dear Myrtle) Monday's with Myrt'. I know we have a monthly internal hangout with Oz and another with the US, but it strikes me that, as an organisation we should conduct a more aggressive web presence, with weekly international hangouts on similar lines to Pat Richley-Erickson's (Dear Myrtle) - Monday's with Myrt'. I'm sure our own Russ Worthington can advise you guys on running a hang-out on slick, smooth professional lines. If you don't know what I mean watch some of her shows on YouTube'. Can we beef up, just take a look at Roots-Tech 2014 Keynote speakers Rees Drummond, Tammy Repps, Crista Cowen, Lisa Louise Cooke, Ron Tanner, Daniel Horowitz to name but a few. You can find them on RootsTech.org & even re-watch the recordings. We need to Put up or shut up, and I prefer the former, not that I'm any kind of expert in these things, What do you think, I'd love to know (Perhaps not!)

John The Guild will have a strong presence at Rootstech 2015, and I believe there are quite a few Guild members attending. Tessa Keough is presenting on the subject of "Who does that? An introduction to one-name (surname) studies?)" See Tessa's report to the September Committee meeting. http://one-name.org/members/minutes/2014Sep/25f%20National%20Rep%20for%20USA %20-%20September%202014.pdf In case the link breaks here's a shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/k9cza6r Best wishes Debbie