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Surname (and Place) Interests

If the purpose of the internet is to communicate, then find out who else is interested in your surnames. 
Curious Fox  Every UK county, town and village, with pages for family history, local history, surname and genealogy enquiries.
Pinpoints the exact location of every village on large and small scale maps, finds an old map, lists nearby villages and entries...

Genes Reunited  a bit C20 (offshoot of
'Friends Reunited'

Lookups

Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS)
UK Surnames 
Both free and subscription.

DNA

Try the STREETER family
'We need lots of English STREETER males to participate in this project in order to identify how many distinct STREETER families originated in Southeast England and from which of those families did the emigrants to the United States, Australia, etc. descend'
There's only one Mr Sykes'

Mailing Lists

Generally you will have to subscribe (it's free!) and receive a emails in List (one at a time), or Digest (several grouped together).
RootsWeb is the big one having a large archive.

Genealogy Resources - a comprehensive list of mailing lists.

Newsgroups

Using Internet explorer as a browser go to Google and select Groups.  Then got to soc. and finally soc.genealogy.

Web Forums/
Message Boards

British Isles RootsChat

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Links checked November 2010
copright Peter Cox 2003