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Surname Search Daily - September 1-2, 2006


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2. New at ABCgenealogy.com - FREE
3. In the News - FREE
4. Featured Products at GenMarket.com
.. Italians in Poland
.. Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
.. Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-72
5. Today's Featured Map - FREE
.. City and Battlefield of Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1862

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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com


* Featured Database :

- West Virginia Vital Research Records Project.
The Vital Research Records Project is placing Birth,
Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search
the records and view scanned images of the original records.


* New Links :

- Dale County, Alabama 1850 Census.
Index and agricultural data.

- Garland County, Arkansas Cemeteries

- Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, England in 1918 Kelly's
Directory

- County Waterford, Ireland Surname Registry

- Gallatin County, Illinois 1820 Census

- New South Wales 1831 Passenger Index.
An index to passengers on ships arriving and departing
Sydney as noted in the Sydney Gazette in 1831, from April
through December.

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2. New at ABCgenealogy.com

* The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands - This
project of the Library of Congress explores the history
of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions
between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry
Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World-War-II period.

* Ancestry of Candice Bergen - The daughter of popular
radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and model Frances
Westerman Bergen, Candice Bergen was famous even before
she was born on May 9, 1946.

* Saskatchewan Genealogy Records Online (Canada)

* Whitwell Local History Group, Derbyshire, England

* Lincoln Parish, Louisiana GenWeb

* AAGARD Surname RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project Search Results

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3. In the News

* Princess to raise flag for 'Heraldry Olimpics'
Around 300 heraldic experts and aficionados from across
the globe will gather in what will be the greatest single
gathering of heralds since the Middle Ages.
- Fife Today (SCT), August 18, 2006.

* Digitized records to help searches
FamilySearch and Salt Lake County (Utah) officials have
announced a cooperative project to digitize and increase
access to select county birth and death records.
- The Clarion-Ledger (MS), August 18, 2006.

* Woman who lost family in Holocaust traces roots
It's a continent away from New Jersey, but the backwater
village of Ivenets in Belarus has long haunted Florette
Lynn.
- northjersey.com (NJ), August 18, 2006.

* The National Archives: the next five years.
Report of the first open meetings, and dates of the next
meetings.
- News from the National Archives (UK), August 18, 2006.

* Are We Clear?
It's important to remember that geographic abbreviations
haven't remained static over the years.
- 24/7 Family History Circle, August 13, 2006.

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[The Italians in Poland from 9th to 18th Century] written
by F. F. De Daugnon. The list of names is of Italian
Families which were naturalized or ennobled Polish between
1500 and 1700. If a date follows the name, this indicates
the year in which that family was naturalized. All others
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* Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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- Conquerors of the West, Vol. 1
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* Topographical Plan of the City and Battlefield of
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