It could save you a lot of time duplicating research others have already done. Many kind folk offer a free lookup service in resources they happen to have available. Many of these services are organised into a series of lookup exchanges. There is a web site giving the details of what is on offer for each area. A list of these sites is given in the main lookup exchange index , together with details of how the system works.
New volunteers are always welcome.
Rootsweb The Rootsweb site offers a huge range of data and facilities for the genealogist. The June 1998 Roots Surname List contains 420,971 names from about 58,000 submitters. I believe web pages should be accessible to all browsers, rather than surfers being browbeaten into switching to some particular browser to see a page. I am currently going through this site trying to achieve this as far as possible, but I do not have any means of testing it with all the dozens of browsers out there. When I think I have managed it with a page I'll include this paragraph at the end and a suitable logo at the top.