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Surname Search Daily - May 3, 2006


1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com - FREE
2. New at ABCgenealogy.com - FREE
3. In the News - FREE
4. Featured Products at GenMarket.com
.. English & Welsh Surnames With Special American Instances
.. Pawtucket, Rhode Island Directories, 1890-92
.. Duncan's Creek, South Carolina Church Cemetery Records
5. Today's Featured Map - FREE
.. Midwest Map circa 1884

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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com


* Featured Database :

- Irish Marriages - Being an Index to the Marriages in
Walker's Hibernian Magazine 1771 to 1812 (Ireland)


* New Links :

- Memorial Funeral Home Records, Blount County, Tennessee
1962-2001

- Bryan County, Georgia 1870 Census Carmarthen, in Pigot &
Co. South Wales directory for 1844 with the village of
Abergwilly and neighbourhoods.

- Marriages from the Registers of Jarrow Grange Good
Shepherd (1893-1949), County Durham, England.

- Civil War - Roster 25th Alabama Infantry, Company K (Pike
and Coffee County)

- Stanbridge Temperance Society (Quebec) List of Original
Members, January 20, 1831 (Images online)

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2. New at ABCgenealogy.com

* Ancestry of Rebecca Nurse - In 1692, Rebecca Nurse was
hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. She was
excommunicated from the Puritan faith before being hanged
but in 1712, the same pastor who had excommunicated her
formally and publicly canceled the excommunication. Surname
List : Blessing, Browning, Denton, Nurse, Perkins, Preston,
Smith, Symonds, Tarbell, Towne, Vary.

* ENG-TAMAR-VALLEY Mailing List at Rootsweb - Topic: A
mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in
their ancestors who frequently moved around the parishes of
West Devon and East Cornwall, England. You can search the
archives for a specific message or browse them.

* West Carroll Parish, Louisiana GenWeb

* Books We Own : Virginia - Books We Own is a list of
resources owned/accessed by individuals who are willing to
look up genealogical information.

* AAKRE : Social Security Death Index Search Results for
Surname Aakre

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3. In the News

* May events around the country (UK)
- ENG-GEN-EVENTS-L, April 24, 2006.

* DNA tests find genetic branches on family trees
In February, the company African Ancestry got a huge boost
when Harvard professor Skip Gates tracked the DNA of
high-profile blacks.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), April 12, 2006.

* Pardon project progresses
After 87 years of silence, the families of 77 Montana men
and women convicted of sedition finally have a chance to be
heard.
- Montana Kaimin (MT), April 12, 2006.

* Vintage Boone
Catch up on Boone County, Illinois history with eclectic
mix of artifacts in Belvidere museum.
- Rockford Register Star (IL), April 13, 2006.

* When researching names, verify everything
There are thousands of genealogical societies, and most of
them have periodicals that accept queries.
- The Columbian (WA), April 12, 2006.

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4. Featured Products at GenMarket.com

* Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames With Special
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This is the classic reference work on English and Welsh
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name appeared in the directories of such cities as Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia. It contains over 30,000 entries
in dictionary form, three columns to a page, giving the
origin and history of each surname, lists of persons
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* Pawtucket, Rhode Island Directories, 1890-92
(Database Online - Ancestry.com) :
Located in the county of Providence, the city of Pawtucket
was formed in 1862 from the towns of Pawtucket, MA and
North providence, RI. This database is a transcription of
city directories originally published in 1890, 1891 and
1892. In addition to providing the resident's name, it
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* Duncan's Creek, South Carolina Church Cemetery Records
(Database Online - Ancestry.com) :
Duncan's Creek, South Carolina, lies near the county line
between Laurens and Newberry in the Piedmont area of the
state, about an hour from the state capitol of Columbia. In
1764, the local Presbyterian community organized a church
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- Marquette District, Manitoba Census, 1891 - Updated
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