AncestralFindings.com - Newsletter No. 481

Vol. 10, No. 67 - August 10, 2005
The latest information on genealogy resources designed to help you...help others.

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** Today's 10 New Genealogy Winners

** Can You Help These People?
--- (Over 35,703 Surnames)

** Today's FREE Lookups
--- North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900
--- Colonial Virginia Source Records, 1600s-1700s
--- Early Tennessee Settlers, 1700s-1900s
--- Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600s-1800s
--- Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1700s-1900s
--- Early Texas Settlers, 1700s-1800s

** Yesterday's Databases
--- U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1870 Census
--- U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1880 Census
--- Census Index: New England, 1900 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
--- Census Index: DE, DC, MD, PA, OH, VA, and WV, 1900

** Genealogy Learning Center
--- What is a First Cousin, Twice Removed?
--- Relationship and Identity
--- Lost or Lost Intentionally? Your Family's Identity

** Today's Map
--- (Wilderness Road and Kentucky, 1774-85)

** Famous Family Trees
--- Sally Hemings
--- Sam Walton
--- Sunny Von Bulow
--- Thomas Edison
--- Wilbur Wright
--- Wyatt Earp

** GeneToons.com - (Maps Can Be Useful)
** Helpful Genealogy Research & Records
** Complete mailing list archive

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==> Today we have selected 10 NEW WINNERS
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==> North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900
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The four titles reproduced and reference approximately 134,000
individuals who were authors of or mentioned in a will or inventory.
Ranging from abstracts to full, unabridged texts of wills, these probate
records can help you gain an understanding of North Carolina's industrial
and social life by giving you insights about its citizens and their property.
Probates, such as those indexed and collected here, are especially
valuable because they often provide details not only property held
by a person but on the nature of that person's relationships
with family and friends.

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Here you'll find 14 books comprehensive in their coverage of
early Tennessee. The cemetery records, vital records, biographical
sketches, family histories, probate records, census returns and
pension lists reference approximately 165,000 individuals.

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==> Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600s-1800s
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Discover this significant collection of records comprehensive in their
coverage of colonial Pennsylvania. Approximately 190,000 individuals
are referenced within the newspaper abstracts, naturalization records,
land records, court records, and family histories.

--- Request a FREE Lookup:
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==> Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1700s-1900s
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More than 135,000 Virginia settlers are mentioned in this collection
of fully searchable abstracts of deeds, marriages, and wills. Every
person is linked not only to a specific event but to a number of family
members, associates, and friends who were also involved in the land
record, marriage, or will administration. This information will help you
establish relationships and approximate arrival times in the colony.

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==> Early Texas Settlers, 1700s-1800s
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Ranging from genealogical sketches to passenger lists and a history
of the settlement of Texas, the eight books collected here are
comprehensive in their coverage of early Texas. In all, approximately
94,000 early Texas settlers are referenced.

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==> Yesterday's Databases
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--- U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1870 Census
--- U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1880 Census
--- Census Index: New England, 1900 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
--- Census Index: DE, DC, MD, PA, OH, VA, and WV, 1900

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--- (Swedish Records)
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--- Canadian Records)
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--- (Cemetery Records)
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--- (Native American Records)
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--- (African-American/Colored Records)
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--- (Australia-New Zealand Records)
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--- (United Kingdom and Ireland Records)
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==> What is a First Cousin, Twice Removed?
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If someone walked up to you and said "Howdy, I'm your third cousin,
twice removed," would you have any idea what they meant? Most
people have a good understanding of basic relationship words such as
"mother," "father," "aunt," "uncle," "brother," and "sister." But what
about the relationship terms that we don't use in everyday speech?
Terms like "second cousin" and "first cousin, once removed"? We
don't tend to speak about our relationships in such exact terms
("cousin" seems good enough when you are introducing one person
to another), so most of us aren't familiar with what these words mean...

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==> Relationship and Identity
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There's no problem when a reliable original record explicitly
states a relationship or ...

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==> Lost or Lost Intentionally? Your Family's Identity
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People approach me at workshops and conferences, and send me
e-mail, asking questions about their family identity. "Where does
this name come from?" "What national or religious group does this
naming pattern indicate?" "How can I learn more about my
[substitute surname here] family's nationality? Let me tell you that
these are really tough questions for anyone, and many genealogists
have had to engage the services of a professional genealogical
researcher who specializes in that geographical area, or that ethnic
or religious group, to get the answers.