There is no charge to join. All we ask is an exchange of information, and that each member complete and return a simple questionnaire giving us permission to keep their info in our databases.
We do not give out post 1900 information, except to direct descendants.
If any of the information given was sent in by another researcher, their help will be acknowledged.
We do put possible relatives in touch with each other, and ask them to keep us informed of their progress.
When you share your T*pl* research with us we will include it in the One Name Study index and check if we have any further information that may help you, and put you in touch with any members researching the same family group. Please give source references, where known [not everyone keeps them, even though they know they should], but don’t send too much information until you know us better.
We’re a really friendly group, although few of us have physically met, and our members do try to help each other, whether by forwarding emails being blocked by over-enthusiastic anti-virus and spam-killer programs, doing a bit of specific research, or offering suggestions on transcription problems.
Our members’ main assistance, of course, is sending in their research results to be added to the index, for which we are all grateful; the more people there are looking, the better our chances, and no transcriber spots a stray or a mis-spelled T*pl* like a T*pl* researcher. One good turn deserves another, so we tell our members if another researcher finds someone we think may be theirs: just another benefit of membership.
New records are being added all the time, so we encourage our members to tell us occasionally how their research is progressing, or where it’s stuck: we won’t know your/their latest results or problems unless you/they tell us. By going back to the index we can sometimes find someone we didn’t know was missing, or can suggest other sources you/they haven’t yet tried: you/they might be lucky, so surely it’s worth a letter or email now and again?
