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My surname project has grown from 1 member to 9 members in about 6 months. I thought this was pretty good. When I became admin in May this year, I got the message out to various surname forums, mailing lists, etc.
So far no matches among 7 of us, and a possible match among 2 of us. I feel this will not look good to potential members if there is no matching yet. I'm going to wait another month when all of the pending results are in, but I'm wondering what other methods have you used to recruit members? I've also written a couple letters, and I was planning on doing a random mailing, maybe 20 or 30 letters to areas of the U.S. where we are lacking in the project. Any other ideas?
Also, for those of you that have 50 or 100 or more members, how did you achieve this? Was there a certain turning point in your project where the project really took off, or was it more gradual, over time?
So far no matches among 7 of us, and a possible match among 2 of us. I feel this will not look good to potential members if there is no matching yet. I'm going to wait another month when all of the pending results are in, but I'm wondering what other methods have you used to recruit members? I've also written a couple letters, and I was planning on doing a random mailing, maybe 20 or 30 letters to areas of the U.S. where we are lacking in the project. Any other ideas?
Also, for those of you that have 50 or 100 or more members, how did you achieve this? Was there a certain turning point in your project where the project really took off, or was it more gradual, over time?
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