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Surname Search Daily - April 8, 2007


1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com - FREE
2. Today at UKIsearch.com - FREE
3. New at ABCgenealogy.com - FREE
4. New at World Vital Records - FREE (limited time)
5. In the News - FREE
6. Featured Products at GenMarket.com
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.. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy, 2nd Edition
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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com


* Featured Database :

- Virginia : Index to War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster
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Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under the Act of
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Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812.
Approximately 40,000 names are indexed.


* New Links :

- Bastrop County, Texas Cemetery Links

- Grape Creek, Cherokee County, North Carolina 1920 Census

- The Forgotten Patriots of the Tom's Creek Hundred,
Frederick County, Maryland. An article by John Miller.
Includes list of the members of Captain Philip Maroney's
Company, in the Flying Camp, August 5, 1776, enlisted in
the Middletown District and elsewhere, Frederick County,
Maryland.

- Indian Children Put to Service in Boston, 1676

- Ukraine : Zhitomir Evangelische Lutherische Kirche :
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* New Links :

- Civil Parishes of Fowey and Gorran, Cornwall, England 1841 Census

- Barnwood, Gloucestershire, England 1851 Census

- 1881 Census of Ships in Port at Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales

- Al Beagan's Genealogy Notes of the Parish of Drung,
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* The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) in the United
States - Originally proposed by Thomas Jefferson, the PLSS
began shortly after the Revolutionary War, when the
Federal government became responsible for large areas
west of the thirteen original colonies.

* Philippines Genealogy Web Project

* Map of Townlands in Newry Parish in Co. Down & Co.
Armagh (Northern Ireland)

* New York History and Genealogy - A central point of
entry to independent not-for-profit web sites with
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* EDENFIELD Genealogical Society - The mission of EGS is
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4. New at World Vital Records

- Eccleshall Parish Register 1573 - 1618, Volume 1 (Staffordshire)
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- Eccleshall Parish Registers 1620 - 1656, Volume 2 (Staffordshire)
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- Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey,
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- History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts 1643 - 1918 (Free for 6 more
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- The Registers of Smethcote, Shropshire 1609 - 1812 (Free for 6
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5. In the News

* Over 25,000 Images Available at PhillyHistory
PhillyHistory currently features only 25,000 images of
Philadelphia dating back to the 1800s, with more images
coming at the rate of 2000 a month.
- Research Buzz (US), March 4, 2007.

* Historic books saved from dump
The valuable cloth-bound tomes entitled The O'Neills of
Ulster, their History and Genealogy - published in 1907
in Dublin - had been left out for the binmen on a street
in Vienna, Virginia.
- Belfast Telegraph (UK), March 6, 2007.

* Grant County museum a gold mine of history
Many people stop at the museum of the Grant County
Historical Society in Elbow Lake, Minnesota when they dig
into family history.
- Fergus Falls Daily Journal (MN), March 6, 2007.

* Who is a Cherokee? Many Americans have Indians in the
family tree
The Oklahoma Cherokee Nation's vote last weekend to
remove African-Americans from official tribal membership
made news in the U.S. and around the world.
- American Chronicle (CA), March 6, 2007.

* New online exhibition opens up 300 years of Caribbean history
Caribbean Histories Revealed, a new online exhibition
from The National Archives, launches on Tuesday 6 March.
- National Archives Press Release (UK), March 6, 2007.

* Novels give life to writer's ancestors
Doris Provencher Faucher wondered how her French
ancestors lived their lives as immigrant settlers in
Nouvelle France in the mid-1600s. She decided to write
about what life was like for them.
- Portland Press Herald (MA), March 8, 2007.

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