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The Members’ Websites Project is a great resource for Guild members and the public out there.  In the Type 3 TNG project alone, we have around 160 registered surnames, submitted by over 145 Guild members.  With thousands of persons in each TNG site, there is a tremendous amount of data on individuals, families, places, births, marriages, deaths and more.

It would be a benefit if you could see your own ancestors pop up in the research by others.  And now, that can be done.  Easily.  With the Surname Cloud tool.

The “Surname Cloud” is a website tool that will do a search for you, looking for matches across all the TNG family trees and then report results back to you in an intuitive display. You can look for matches to your surname of study, for variants of a surname, or even for surnames not yet registered.

You can find the tool itself at: Analytics of One-Name Studies – Surname Cloud.  There is also a link to that site on the Guild’s official website, in the footer: “Surname search of Members’ Websites”.

For further help, go to the TNG Wiki webpage on the surname cloud for an explanation of this new tool.