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Surname Search Daily - November 02, 2005


1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com - FREE
2. New at ABCgenealogy.com - FREE
3. In the News - FREE
4. Featured Products at GenMarket.com
.. The Saint Lawrence: Its Basin and Border-Lands
.. Scottish Clans
.. Cemetery Record Compendium (US)
.. U.S. Civil War Photos, 1860-1870
5. Today's Featured Map - FREE
.. John Smith's Map of Virginia, 1624 Edition

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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com


* Featured Database :

- Officers Died.
British Army Officers: Casualties from 1750 in Canada to
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* New Links :

- 1850 Pulaski County Georgia Census Images

- Civil Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, England 1841 Census

- Bradley County, Tennessee District 5 Tax List - 1837,
1838, 1839.
District 5 was in a part of Bradley County which was to
become Polk County in the fall of 1839.

- Gronlunds Directory of the City of Calgary & District -
1902 - Rural Communities (Alberta, Canada)

- Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland Surname Search

- Cherokee County, North Carolina Death Records 1913-1927

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2. New at ABCgenealogy.com

* A Lesson In Management - This hobby (read: obsession)
that we share can require a little discipline when it
comes to time management.

* ARCHON Directory - The ARCHON Directory includes contact
details for record repositories in the United Kingdom and
also for institutions elsewhere in the world which have
substantial collections of manuscripts noted under the
indexes to the National Register of Archives.

* Victorian GUM Inc. - Victorian GUM (Genealogists Using
Microcomputers) Inc. is an association of family history
researchers using computers to help them in their research.
VicGUM is based in Melbourne, and has over 700 members
around Australia.

* Jefferson County, Georgia GenWeb

* Books We Own : Missouri - Books We Own is a list of
resources owned/accessed by individuals who are willing to
look up genealogical information and e-mail or snail mail
it to others who request it. This is a free service -
volunteers may ask for reimbursement of copies and postage
if information is provided via snail-mail.

* ABERNETHY : Distribution Map of Abernethy Families in
England and Wales in 1891.

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3. In the News

* 2,000 hours of volunteer work results in genealogical
treasures
Iowa : Bernard Bailey recently celebrated his 2,000th hour
of volunteering, hand-recording obituary and wedding
notices from the Davenport Democrat newspapers from the
1950s.
- Quad City Times (IA), October 20, 2005.

* DNA Testing Allows African-Americans to Trace Ancestry
Twenty million people were taken from Africa in chains,
with no records of who they were or where they came from.
- ABC News (US), October 21, 2005.

* A new berth
Wales : The National Waterfront Museum in Swansea recalls
days of grit and greatness.
- The Telegraph (UK), October 22, 2005.

* Women's lack of standing hinders genealogy search
Historical society speaker offers ideas for researching
family members who left no paper trail.
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PA), October 23, 2005.

* Trying to find a connection
Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Librarian's own curiosity about
genealogy leads her to become resource for others tracing
their family history.
- The Advocate (LA), October 23, 2005.

* In a Yellow Petticoat and a Green Gown
Settlers in the earliest years of America wore clothing
described in terms unfamiliar to us.
- Ancestry Daily News, October 20, 2005.

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* The Saint Lawrence: Its Basin and Border-Lands. The
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those interested in history and geography. Dawson sets out
to relate the chief facts pertaining to the discovery and
exploration of the northeastern part of the continent of
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* Scottish Clans
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This DVD about the legendary clans of Scotland begins with
an informative segment on the battle of Culloden in 1746,
a critical event in which the once-powerful clans were
defeated by English troops. An explanation of the general
nature of Scottish clans and their importance in the
country's history provides a good background before a
number of short segments are presented on individual
families. The narrator of the film tells brief historical
anecdotes about each featured clan, which includes
Anderson, Armstrong, Buchanan, Cameron, MacGregor,
Stewart, and Wallace (with William Wallace of Braveheart
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* Cemetery Record Compendium
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For family historians, cemetery records in the United
States can be the only surviving record of vital
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records and where they may be located. This collection
lists the available cemetery records and the source from
which they were taken.
This is one database among thousands available to
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* U.S. Civil War Photos, 1860-1870
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This database contains a collection of approximately 6,900
photographs from and around the time of the American Civil
War. The photographs have been collected from a variety of
sources and places but today are held by the Library of
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- Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 - Updated
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