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Surname Search Daily : August 2-3, 2007


1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com - FREE
2. Today at Canadian Genealogy Records Online - 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
.. Contents and Addresses of Hungarian Archive
.. Chippewa Half-Breeds of Lake Superior
.. Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting
.. Auctions for Genealogists

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1. Today at FreeSurnameSearch.com


* Featured Database :

- Michigan Family Group Sheet Project


* New Links :

- Town of Ischua, Cattaraugus County, New York Biographies

- 1820 Federal Census Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, Ohio Index

- Database of West Indies Cricket Players past and present.

- Morpeth, NSW, Australia Catholic Cemetery

- Greene County, Mississippi transcription of the civilian draft
registration cards in 1917-1918

- Colorado 1900 Federal Indian School Census (Fort Lewis, La Plata
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2. Today at Canadian Genealogy Records Online


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- Canadian Health Obituary Index 1833-2000.
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill
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death which appeared in over 25 medical periodicals.


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- Macaulay Township, Muskoka District Free Grant Settlers, Ontario,
Canada.
Register of Free Grants under the Free Grant and
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- Canadians in the Civil War

- St. Barnabas Church, Ecum Secum, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia
Deaths 1910-1957

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3. New at World Vital Records

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4. New at ABCgenealogy.com

* There's a NARA Near You! Exploring the Regional
Archives - Nearly one-quarter of NARA's holdings are
located in its regional archives, and there may be one
near you. An article published in the Fall 2005 issue of
Prologue Magazine, Quarterly of the National Archives and
Records Administration.

* Halifax Explosion 1917 Online Resources (Nova Scotia,
Canada) - Halifax Explosion resources held at Nova Scotia
Archives and Records Management. Tour the 'Vision of
Regeneration' online exhibit, access information about
the 1,952 victims of the Explosion, view silent film
footage taken the day after, read personal accounts by
people who survived, and plan further research into the
event.

* Bedfordshire Maps (England) - 1748, 1766, 1801, 1804.

* County Down, Northern Ireland GenWeb

* National Register of Historical Places - Hawaii -
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* LYALL Genealogy Mailing List at RootsWeb

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5. In the News

* Stories of life and death described to genealogists
Records of more than 17 million people victimized by the
Nazis will soon become available.
- Deseret Morning News (UT), July 18, 2007.

* Potter collection donated to Lewes Historical Society
The Lewes Historical Society (Delaware) announces the
donation of the personal collection of Helene Carter
Potter, a prominent historian, genealogist and Lewes
native who passed away in 2004.
- Cape Gazette (DE), July 19, 2007.

* West Icelanders return
West Icelanders are the descendants of the roughly 16,000
people who migrated from Iceland to North America in the
late 19th and early 20th century.
- Iceland Review (Iceland), July 20, 2007.

* Picnic marks 111 years of Haviland family history
The first family member, John Haviland, came to Ontario
from New York in 1803.
- Brantford Expositor (ON), July 21, 2007.

* Land Entry Files kept in General Land Office
Land entry case files for the Homestead Act are dated
from 1863 to 1908.
- Terre Haute Tribune-Star (IN), July 21, 2007.

* Southington families plan 130th reunion
Descendants of The first settlers to Southington, Ohio,
this year will be the 130th reunion for the Chalker,
Viets and Norton families.
- Tribune Chronicle (OH).

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