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Surname Search Daily - July 1-2, 2007
1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com - FREE
2. Today at UKIsearch.com - FREE
3. New at World Vital Records - FREE (limited time)
4. New at ABCgenealogy.com - FREE
5. In the News - FREE
6. Featured Products at GenMarket.com
.. Tracing Your Army Ancestors (UK)
.. Nantucket Genealogies (Mass.)
.. First Settlers of New England, 1620-1675
.. Auctions for Genealogists
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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com
* Featured Database :
- World War II Registry.
A list of individual Americans who participated in the
war effort. Search for currently enrolled honorees, or
enroll a family member or friend. Any U.S. citizen who
helped win the war, whether a veteran or someone on the
home front, is eligible for the Registry. Names in the
Registry will be forever linked to the World War II
Memorial in Washington, D.C.
* New Links :
Polk County, Wisconsin, Marriages 1855-1867
Clear Creek Cemetery, Brown County, Texas
Sandy Creek Baptist Association Church Records, Geneva County,
Alabama 1878-1896
Chester County, Pennsylvania Commissioners, 1711-2004
Passenger List : the Scindian, England to Western Australia, 1850 :
200 passengers and 75 male convicts.
Winthrop News (Winthrop, Sibley County, Minnesota) (Free Newspaper
Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 1924.
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2. Today at UKIsearch.com
* Featured Database :
- London Metropolitan Police Orders Database.
This site helps family historians trace records of
relatives who served in the metropolitan police Service.
* New Links :
- Marriages at Matlock 1637 - 1812, Derbyshire, England
- Templedouglas Graveyard, County Donegal, Ireland :
Headstone inscriptions and photographs (civil parish of
Conwal)
- TAMH: Mariners and Voyages Search.
TAMH is a virtual museum presenting the maritime history
of Tayside, on the east coast of Scotland. Search through
the shipping log records of mariners and voyages to and
from Tayside ports through the centuries.
- St. Bartholomew, Roby, Lancashire, England Burials to 1900
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3. New at World Vital Records
- Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850 : 20 volumes
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4. New at ABCgenealogy.com
* George Grantham Bain Collection - The George Grantham
Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one
of America's earliest news picture agencies. The bulk of
the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but
scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and
as late as the 1930s. Available online are 39,744 glass
negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic
prints for which copy negatives exist.
* Map of Essex, England (1870-1890)
* NZ-TARANAKI Mailing List at RootsWeb - A mailing list
for anyone with a genealogical interest in the Taranaki
region of New Zealand.
* Mississippi County, Arkansas Genealogy - Part of the
ARGenWeb Project.
* Idaho Counties - An overview from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
* COLLINS Marriages in Massachusetts 1841-1850 - From the
microfilmed registration books of marriages for all
Massachusetts cities and towns. These registration pages
where submitted by municipal clerks to the State on an
annual basis. Work in progress.
Go to:
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5. In the News
* You Are Who Went Before You
Each of us is the result of a long line of circumstances,
most of which we are unaware.
- The Payson Roundup (AZ), June 19, 2007.
* Plot Your Family History Trip on Google Maps
Online mapping tools such as Google Maps and Windows Live
Local can be a neat tool for planning a genealogy vacation.
- About.com (US), June 18, 2007.
* Family History Seminar (San Antonio, Tex.)
Join us September 29 for an all-day seminar at the seventh
annual family history seminar sponsored by the Daughters
of the Republic of Texas Library on the grounds of the
Alamo.
- GEN-EVENTS, June 19, 2007.
* Out of Africa
Following different routes out of Africa, successive waves
of early humans migrated into new territories, eventually
populating the entire globe save Antarctica.
- Vanity Fair (US), July 2007.
* Merchant Navy Veterans Present Reminiscences To Manx National
Heritage
Manx National Heritage has taken into their collection
the recorded reminiscences of Merchant Navy veterans on
the Isle of Man who served aboard British ships during
World War Two.
- 24 Hour Museum (UK), June 22, 2007.
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* Tracing Your Army Ancestors (UK)
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organization and regimental histories and covers
information on the major archives and museums, including
the National Archives.
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* Nantucket Genealogies (Mass.)
(Book - Genealogical.com) :
Excerpted from The History of Nantucket County, Island,
and Town, Including Genealogies of First Settlers. This
work consists of detailed genealogies of the majority of
the First Purchasers of Nantucket (the original owners of
the island, as they were called). It is excerpted from
Alexander Starbuck's much longer History of Nantucket
County, Island, and Town, constituting the final 200 pages
of that opus.
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* A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New
England, 1620-1675
(Book - Genealogical.com) :
This work, based almost exclusively on original records,
is a directory of the first settlers of New England.
Arranged alphabetically by surnames, the data on each
individual includes the date of arrival, place of
settlement, dates of birth and death, and some
biographical highlights. It is an invaluable treatise on
the settlers.
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