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Surname Search Daily - March 3-4, 2007


1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com - FREE
2. New at ABCgenealogy.com - FREE
3. In the News - FREE
4. Featured Products at GenMarket.com
.. Cemetery Transcription Notepad
.. Peerage of the British Empire
.. Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine
5. Today's Featured Map - FREE
.. Map of Greater Santiago, Chile 1987

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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com


* Featured Database :

- Alabama Civil War Veterans and Out-of-State Veterans
Buried in Alabama Soil


* New Links :

- Marriage Notices published in Geneva, Ontario County,
New York Newspapers 1807-1931

- Amador County, California WW2 Enlistees

- 1755 Victual List for Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

- East Cleveland Township Cemetery, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

- Declarations of Intention to Marry given at the British
Consulate, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1849-75 (Scots only)

- Civil Parish of Kenwyn, Cornwall, England 1841 Census
(Including Kenwyn in the Borough of Truro)

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2. New at ABCgenealogy.com

* The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Locate towns in Eastern or
Central Europe, by name or location.

* Traditional counties of England : Kent - An overview
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

* Connecticut Counties - An overview from Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia.

* Black Hawk County, Iowa GenWeb

* GRAMPS Project - GRAMPS is a genealogy program for
Linux and other UNIX-like systems. The GRAMPS name stands
for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management
Programming System. GRAMPS can be downloaded at no
charge. GRAMPS is an Open Source project covered by the
GNU General Public License. You have full access to the
source code and are allowed to distribute the program and
source code freely.

* ABERNETHY : Distribution Map of Abernethy Families in
the US in 1920

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3. In the News

* Putting family tree on paper
Spotsylvania County, Virginia resident Mike Arndt
compiles impressive family history that looks like an
encyclopedia.
- The Free Lance-Star (VA), February 18, 2007.

* Young Americans find roots in China
San Francisco program offers history and genealogy, helps
locate relatives.
- San Francisco Chronicle (CA), February 18, 2007.

* The National Geographic and IBM's Genographic Project:
Charting the migratory history of the human species
According to geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells, all humans
alive today are descended from a San bushman who lived in
Africa around 60,000 years ago.
- Finfacts (Ireland), February 18, 2007.

* Freedmen's site valuable for research
It can be very difficult to research one's African-
American genealogy. Fortunately, there are a number of
online sources that make the task easier.
- Cincinati Post (OH), February 19, 2007.

* Rutter Family Reunion
The Reunion for descendants of William Rutter's eight
children 14 & 15 April 2007. William arrived Australia
April 1807 along with his future wife Charlotte Flowers
nee Robinson.
- AUS-GEN-EVENTS, February 16, 2007.

* Ancestry Posts Collection of British Phone Books 1880-1984
Ancestry has just posted a collection of British phone
books published between 1880, the year after the public
telephone service was introduced to the UK, and 1984,
from the historic phone book collection held by BT
Archives.
- 24/7 Family History Circle, February 16, 2007.

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* Cemetery Transcription Notepad
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historical information about cemetery such as cemetery
name, city, county, state, latitude/longitude, date
cemetery established, other info, directions, date of
transcription, name of transcriber and contact
information of transcriber. 100 Individual notepages has
heading for cemetery name, a section for noting section;
row; block; number or other information regarding
location of grave in cemetery. A large section for
transcribing the grave inscription, a place to check
whether a picture of grave was taken or not and
additional notes.

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* Peerage of the British Empire
(Database Online - Ancestry.co.uk) :
This database describes the peerage of the British Empire
as constituted about 1848. Peerage refers to the five
classes of Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. It
also includes the coats of arms of the peers and
describes the baronetage (those who are baronets, a class
below Baron). Requires payment.

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* An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners
Living in Maine
(Book - Genealogical.com) :
Flagg provides information in tabular form on some 5,000
Maine Revolutionary pensioners. Arranged alphabetically,
the pensioners are identified by name, rank, service,
age, county of residence, remarks such as date of death
or town of residence, and source of the information.

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* New Ancestry.com databases (for Ancestry.com subscribers):

- Ancestry and posterity of George McCook Robinson
- Canadian Soldiers of World War I, 1914-1918
- 1871 Scotland Census
- 1891 Scotland Census
- Slomke´s Städtebuch für reisende Arbeiter Handwerker und Künstler
(in German)
- Geschichte von Gießen und der Umgegend von der ältesten Zeit bis
zum Jahre 1265 (in German)
- Geschichte der Stadt Pforzheim (in German)
- Geschichte Wandsbecks unter Heinrich und Breido Rantzau 1564-1614
(in German)
- Geschichte der Stadt Mainz, Vierter Band. EnthaltendÖ Die
Geschichte der Grossherzoglichen Hessischen Rheinprovinz (in German)
- "Burg, Stadt und Dorf" Zuzenhausen im Elsenzgau (in German)
- Oertliche Beschreibung der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (in German)
- Genealogical diagram dedicatory to the lineal descendants of Adam
Shank
- Indiana Births, 1880-1920 - Updated

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