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9/19/2001 - Archive


Home Pages Highlighted
The following is a list of some of the genealogy-related World Wide Web home pages that have been added recently on www.rootscomputing.com:

Research of the surnames Appleby, Remington, Hodgkins and Groves: www.geocities.com/deappleby/famtree.html.

A genealogy of the descendants of Lee Duanfu whose grandson, Lee Yeelai, was the first to settle in the village, Daigong (Dawang) Tsun, China. However, Lee Dong is honored as the first ancestor: www3.telus.net/arts/wunbu.

The soldiers and their families and also the history of Minnesota's 6th Regiment in the U.S. Civil War: www.SixthMinnesota.org.

Maximilian Genealogy - This site has been in existence in several forms for the past seven years, but re-launched last September. It now contains a comprehensive database of fifty-six thousand-plus people with thousands of biographies and images. Free samples are available; this database being accessed through a one-off low cost subscription. A CD for the database has also been made available. In addition to this there is free access to other databases, resources & feature pages, including pedigrees, coats of arms and much more: www.genealogydatabase.co.uk.

Mary's Genealogy Treasures - Over sixteen thousand six-hundred and fifteen genealogy links which include Canadian genealogy resources and military links, provincial genealogy resources, surname registry, Alberta Pioneer histories, U.S. genealogy resources, military links and census records, British Isles genealogy resources, Immigration and passenger lists, and Ethnic records: www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/.

Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia - This year Gloucester is celebrating its 350th anniversary, so it is one of the oldest settlements in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Originally it was part of York County, VA. Later one part of this country separated to become Mathews County: www.rootsweb.com/~vaggsv/vaggsv/index.htm.

Tracing Your Ancestors in Sturgis, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi – A starting point for those researching in the Southwestern corner of Oktibbeha County. Lots of transcriptions, history, land and property research, slave and plantation research, beginner help, message board and look-ups, people and businesses, churches and cemeteries and general information: www.sturgisms.homestead.com.

Brownley family tree in Lambley, Burton Joyce, and  Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, Sheffield, Pontefract, Hemsworth and Castleford in Yorkshire: www.abrownley.freeserve.co.uk.

Middle EastGenWeb Project – An excellent resource for genealogical research on the Middle Eastern Nations, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia and more. This is a member project of the World GenWeb Project with news resources and links to official government websites & ancient maps: www.rootsweb.com/~mdeastgw.

Anson County, North Carolina and Chesterfield County, South Carolina Genealogy – A recent addition contains African-American research in Anson County, NC: www.ghgcorp.com/sellers/sellers/html.

To submit your home page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: www.rootscomputing.com/register.htm. Due to the volume of new Web pages submitted, I am not able to list all of them in the newsletter.


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