the researchers will also study the etymology of the surname, and its geographical distribution. Sometimes, especially if the surname is also a place name, they will try to identify the place or places of origin of the surname, employing the normal methods of genealogy. A small core of Guild members are combining their traditional documentary research with a DNA project. By the end of 2009 some 200 DNA surname projects were led by Guild members. One-name study researchers are also increasingly making use of online networking services such as Facebook to make connections with other people researching their surname. Activities The principal meeting places of the Guild are its on-line mailing list - the Guild Email Forum, an active Members only Facebook Group and its Seminars and Annual Conferences, which are mostly held in England. There is also a Facebook page which non-members can view and contact the Guild. As an organisation, its principal role has been to debate and distribute advice on methods for one-name studies. Members have collated a wiki of such advice, but this is not yet publicly available. To meet the concern of members that one-name compilations are often lost to posterity when researchers die and their papers are destroyed, the Guild Archive, an electronic repository for members' one-name records, has been created and guidelines laid down on bequests of digital data to the Guild. The Guild Marriage Index, a facility to help members find the names of marriage partners and identify from index numbers where post-1837 marriages took place in England and Wales, is likely to become the Guild's main contribution to the wider field of family history. Publications The Guild's initial periodical was the Guild of One-Name Studies Newsletter, published quarterly for eight issues from January 1980 to October 1981 on corner-stapled, typescript foolscap sheets under editor Frank Higenbottam. This was followed by the Journal of One-Name Studies, with binding, also quarterly, from 1982 to the present. Its current editor (2016-) is Jean-Marc Bazzoni.The Register of One-Name Studies published annually, lists all one-name studies currently registered by Guild members. The Guild also publishes booklets of advice such as Organising a One-Name Gathering. The Guild published Your Research Surname Guide - How to do a One-Name Study with the April 2019 edition of Family Tree Magazine (UK). In September 2019, the Guild published a revised and extended edition, called Researching Surnames - A Guide to