Hi Sandra After several years of dithering I finally joined the GOONS last year - IMHO it's well worth it for the help and expertise available in the Guild. I've not had many contacts through them - but that's because I have had my own web site (and blog) for a while - that's the best way of getting folks to find you. If you don't have the expertise to do your own stuff, the Guild profile is an excellent place to start, and one study I know of uses the profile as their main site. It is also already known to the search engines so Google etc can easily find your stuff. But it's just as easy to go your own way if you don't want to join. At 11:44 30/10/2012, you wrote: >How do I let people know it's there? If you want people to know about it, then you have to make available some thing to tell them that it's there - so you'll have to publish something on the web, somehow, somewhere! >I don't want to publish it on the net - not because it's "mine" but because I would like feedback. You never know who may be out there with the missing link! I don't understand you here. How can you get feedback if you don't publish? Please could you explain why you don't want to publish on the web? >Also I would like to comment on the parts that people may be interested in and also make the point that I have nearly 1300 names that are connected by marriage. You obviously have a lot of information and it would be welcomed by most researchers. How many Bevingtons etc. do you have? As a recent poster said, there are many ways of publishing on the web. Not all cost. Not all require you to learn HTML. There are pros and cons to most! Take a look at the web sites of GOONS members - you'll see a huge variety of hosts and publishing software. Beware though of just posting some brief details and your contact address - spam gets everywhere these days. I am grateful to GoogleMail and Wordpress for their spam filtering, which seem to get about 99% of it. IMHO you should always use a contact form which does some filtering and doesn't show your actual address. I do know of a site (not the GOONS) which does publicise One Name Studies - but it was only for Yorkshire! And it wasn't kept up-to-date. Best Wishes, Andy PS I've still got Bebbingtons in my tree - we had contact some years back! PPS I have Ron Bebbington's email address if you can't get through or don't get a response on the GOONS address, although I don't know how active he is these days.