Agreed. There's another aspect to this too, which is that having links to and from your own website from a popular site like the Guild's (and others) helps both sites improve their search engine ranking, thereby making it even more likely that people will find the results of your research. HTH Paul PS in response to Ann McDonald's question, yes, I have seen an uptick in people contacting me. For several years I noticed that we had approximately one new registrant on our website for every 100 people in the online database, but recently the number of registrants has been growing faster than that. Whether it's the Guild's new site, or the consequence of the old maxim that the value of a database increases with the square of its size, I do not know! Maybe it has more to do with the number of showings of TV programs like WDYTYA around the world. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Corinne Curtis via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I'm not too worried about how many initial contacts I get through my > profile page - in fact I probably get a lot more from the wordpress > blog. What I do like about it,is that it provides a more formal > reference for my study- so someone discovering my blog can then use a > link to the profile page and realise its a formal study and much more > than just one person's hobby. > > Corinne Curtis > Sennett ONS > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:30 PM, 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 > _____________________________________________ > > 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 -- Paul Howes www.howesfamilies.com Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide