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10/16/2002 - Archive


Home Pages Highlighted
The "Home Pages Highlighted" section consists of new genealogy-related home pages that you, the readers of this newsletter, nominate for publication in this newsletter. While anyone may nominate any genealogy-related home page, the process seems to work best when the webmaster for a home page nominates his or her own work. Nominations are now done online at www.rootsforum.com.

The following is a list of some of the genealogy-related World Wide Web home pages that have recently been listed by newsletter readers at www.rootsforum.com:

Database of obituaries from Washington and Oregon. Searchable by name, maiden name, birthplace, year of birth, year of death, high school, college, or military: http://obitz.us

Peck Pioneers, a genealogical site for researchers of the surname PECK. Includes a database with a lot of information about people named Peck: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~peckpioneers

Dalrymple Miscellanea is a collection of stories, anecdotes, and biographical data of Dalrymple namesakes who have influenced their life and times: http://home.iprimus.com.au/bobdalrymple/dalrymple/dalrymple.htm

The Devine Surname DNA Study, aimed at identifying localities in Ireland where Devine families with particular DNA signatures originated, with links to other sites about genealogical DNA testing: http://hometown.aol.com/donndevine/myhomepage/heritage.html

Early families from Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania; Washington Co., Maryland; and Ogle Co., Illinois: http://members.aol.com/rogercubs/index.html

Appleby, Floyd, Groves, Hodgkins, Remington, and other related surnames–covers deceased family ancestors and some of their collateral lines, some going as far back as about 1540, and geographical localities from England to Canada and the U.S., Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan, and California: www.donevanappleby.com

Featherstone World Wide One Name study with the variants Fe(a)therston((e)haugh) and a few more. Containing indexes of births, deaths, marriages, and a lot more: www.featherstone-society.com

Fergus, Francis Descendants site–research beginning in 1752, Co. Tyrone, Ireland, immigration to America by 1775, Rev. War soldier, father of 9 children of whom there are living descendants from 8 of the children! Photos of ongoing cemetery restoration where Francis Fergus is buried. Listings of all lineages other than living descendants. Descendants' guest book. Reunion information and guest book. crussell@traversecity.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fergusfamilyworldwide/index.htm

Exploring Portuguese Hawaiian heritage through genealogy. This site includes articles, indexes, message board, and more. www.islandroutes.com

Ancestry of Michaud, Gendreau, Bouchard, Dube, and related families from 1570 to the present. www.tribalpages.com/tribes/fran1933

Green(e) Genealogy–77,000 people in a database. Primary families are Green(e), Bowen, Lape and Graham with special concentration on the Green(e) families. References are found in the notes for each individual: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~greenefamily/index.html

Dyer Families of New England; includes the descendants of five different Dyer colonists; also genealogies of Braintree & Weymouth area of Massachusetts: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer

London's Metropolitan Police Service–a commercial service with an online database of police orders from the years 1899-1929 in a searchable database. The database contains over 400,000 entries: www.policeorders.co.uk

Beal Surname DNA Project for Soundex B400 surnames. The organization has been successful in proving several lines of ancestry, e.g. William Beale, (1664) York, ME: Ninian Beall of Prince George's Co., MD; Richard Bell, Chester Co., PA, back to Archibald Bell, circa 1590, Dumfrieshire, Scotland. The organization also has disproved other assumed relationships: http://hometown.aol.com/bealsurnamedna/index.html

Guile–Gile–Guiles Genealogy:Descendants of Samuel Guile, one of 12 Founders in 1640 of Haverhill township, New England. Nearly 10,000 descendants, 16,800 connected names. Practically all people of the surnames Guile, Gile and Guiles in America are his descendants. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~guile164/index.htm

The Hastrich Family lists members of the family and their relatives with their genealogical connections. It also features a project to transcribe German churchbook pages; http://home.hccnet.nl/j.hastrich/

Solum, Lower Telemark, Norway genealogy site - Mostly in Norwegian, but with a short intro in English. Source transcripts of census, probates, church records: http://solumslekt.org/

"Curlin Branch Of The Curling Family" traces Curlings from Isle of Thanet, Kent, England to Lower Norfolk Co., VA. Names associated with the family include Savills, Cooper, Perkins, Galloway, Barth. www.mindspring.com/~jwet/curlin/curlin.htm

Perryman (Creek Indian) Clearing House–The Creek Indian Perryman's were in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1828. The site also shows their beginnings in Alabama and Georgia: http://members.tripod.com/perryman_2

Singer family history in England, Poland, Canada, USA, Australia –Includes over 1000 pictures: www.iansinger.com

Hubbard Gleanings–a searchable website that chronicles 7 Hubbard lines that began their sojourn in the New World in New England or New York: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/hubbard_photos

Raney Historical Society, a meeting place for researchers of the Raney surname. Included are: Forum, newsletter and volunteers to assist you in your research. http://raneyhistoricalsociety.mybravenet.com

Strutton Family Connections is a resource center for all Strutton/Stratton genealogy researchers. Contains multiple databases for Struttons and related surnames–Bailey, Luttrell, Stone, Womack; www.strutton.org

Murphy's Public House is dedicated to the Irish and German families of Ohio and contains many searchable databases, family stories, photos, and links to related genealogy subjects. www.alltel.net/~dmurphy595/index.html

Comprehensive genealogy resources for Marion County, Indiana, by GenExchange: www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=in&county=marion

Comprehensive genealogy resources for Delaware County, Ohio, by GenExchange: http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=oh&county=delaware

Comprehensive genealogy resources for Union County, Ohio, by GenExchange: http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=oh&county=union

Comprehensive genealogy resources for Hardin County, Ohio, by GenExchange: http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=oh&county=hardin

To submit your genealogy page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: www.rootsforum.com. Due to the volume of new webpages submitted, I am not able to list all of them in the newsletter.

To discuss this story further on the message board for newsletter readers, go to www.RootsForum.comand click on "Message Board."

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