Very good point Corinne - what you say about a *formal* reference. I’ve just set up a FaceBook Group and to my surprise (horror, even), I have 50+ members in less than a week, but very few of them are interested in what I would think of as “hard stuff”, so I like the fact that my profile, though still a bit content light, keeps me focussed. Fiona — 5538 - Duignan & variants On 26 Nov 2014, at 19:07, 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