Guild website at www.one-name.org, you can search for the surname that members are researching and if you join for 12 pounds you get an email address to communicate with others who share your research with others. it also puts other email and web pages if you have them. their publications are full of interesting suggestions and a surname distribution map comes with membership. they have conferences but i can't attend since most are in the uk. BUT SOME OF YOU might be luckier? http://www.one-name.org/sems.html search for free for your surname...there could me a nut like me who collects all records for a surname. it ismore than likely that mine is a nut tree to start with. <A HREF="mailto:mary.schacht@one-name.org">mary.schacht@one-name.org</A> mary powrie schacht digging out from ice and snow in OREGON (oregon hazlnut)