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From 1650 on

48 States: 1650 - 1907

Tips, Links and Information!
Updated 05/31/03

Check out the Cemetery Search Engine!

Our ancestors often used the following naming procedure when picking

out a name for a new child. This explains why certain names are VERY

common in a given family line. Watching for these patterns can help in

your genealogy research. Of course, this is not written in stone and just

about the time we figure it out it will change again!

1st son = father's father

2nd son = mother's father

3rd son = father

4th son = father's oldest brother

5th son = father's 2nd oldest brother or mother's oldest brother

1st dau = mother's mother

2nd dau = father's mother

3rd dau = mother

4th dau = mother's oldest sister

5th dau = mother's 2nd oldest sister or father's oldest sister

Beginning Genealogy

This site is loaded with information needed if you are just beginning your search for "Branches"

http://www.tedpack.org/

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Cemetery Records Online

Search for Burial Records

New Records Added Daily

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North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina by Brent Holcomb c. 1980

The border between North and South Carolina was a point of controversy for many years. Finally in 1764 the border east of the Catawba River was Survey and by 1772 surveyed west of that river. Before these surveys over 1000 grants were issued by North Carolina in territory which is now South Carolina. These grants are in the present counties of: MARLBORO * CHESTERFIELD * LANCASTER * YORK * CHESTER * UNION * CHEROKEE * SPARTANBURG * GREENVILLE * LAURENS * NEWBERRY. However in the years immediately following the survey these areas were considered CRAVEN OR BERKELEY COUNTIES (and ST MARK'S or ST DAVIDS'S PARISH). The North Carolina counties from which these land grants were issued were BLADEN * ANSON * MECKLENBURG and TRYON. The book includes plat maps from both Bullock's and Allison's Creeks as well as Bullocks Creek Area.

GENEALOGY MALL

US FEDERAL CENSUS 1790: http://www.genealogy-mall.com/

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1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920

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1790 Facts

1. First U.S. decennial population census.

2. U.S. population: 3.9 million (3.2 million free, .7 million slave)

3. Census conducted by U.S. marshals under the direction of the president.

4. Census day: 1st Monday in August (2 August 1790).

5. Mandated copies: One set, sent to the federal district court.

Same copy ordered sent to the U.S. Secretary of State in 1830.

6. A printed list of the 1790 census is available on microfilm as

National Archives' publication: Series: T498 Rolls: 1,2, and 3.

NOTE: Check out this site for fact information each census year.

Useful sites!

Some of the web sites may no longer be current. If you find any please let us know and we can delete it. We do not know who put this list together but "Thank you for doing it".
HINT: You can copy the URL (addresses). Use your mouse button on the address you want then push your right mouse button, select copy. Now, go the the top of your web browser and use your mouse button to click on the URL (address) space, it will change color, press your space bar one time and the information in the URL will be gone! Now, use your mouse and click on the empty line, now use your right mouse button and select paste! Click on the end of the line and press return on your keyboard. This takes you to the new address and saves some typing time. (plus for me the dreaded "transposed" letters!

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ROOTSWEB SEARCH ENGINE - ANY SURNAME OR LISTING

To search by state:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm

To search files anywhere in Archives:

http://searches.rootsweb.com/htdig/search.html

http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

http://lists.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/findlist.pl

Trying to find a Rootsweb surname list? Don't know which of 8,000 possible variant spellings it might be listed under? This tool finds sound-alike matches for a given surname from among RootsWeb's thousands of surname lists. http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ (Find any Rootsweb genealogy mailing list)

FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINES: (Be aware some are no longer with us! I learned the hard way if you find something, copy and paste it to an email to yourself, be sure and cite you source and the URL)

http://www.aj.com/ (Ask Jeeves)

http://www.altavista.digital.com/ (Alta Vista)

http://www.aol.com/netfind/ (AOL Searcher)

http://www.excite.com/ (Excite)

http://galaxy.tradewave.com/galaxy.html (Galaxy)

http://www.hotbot.com/ (Hot Bot)

http://www.infoseek.com/ (Info Seek)

http://lycospro.lycos.com/ (Lycos)

SEARCH FOR PEOPLE - SEARCH ENGINES:

http://www.anywho.com/resq.html

http://www.555-1212.com/whte_us.htm

http://www.four11.com/

http://www.switchboard.com/

http://www.whowhere.com/

http://www.icq.com/emaildir.html

(Search the ICQ email directory - Millions of users)

REAL-TIME COMPUTER TRANSLATIONS

(All European languages)

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

http://www.calle.com/world/index.html (Global Gazatteer - Foreign)

http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html

(United State Geological Service - finds exact location of place names, cemeteries, churches, streams, etc. Excellent !!)

http://www.indo.com/distance/ (Distance between two locations. Enter geographic coordinates or placenames)

http://www.mit.edu/geo/ (finds county for known place and state)

http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn_browser/ (geographic thesaurus)

http://www1.proximus.com/lycos/ (Lycos road map)

http://www.mapquest.com/ (Mapquest)

http://www.expediamaps.com/PlaceFinder.asp (Microsoft worldwide info)

http://members.aol.com/oldmapsne/ (Historical Ink; old maps, NY&NE)

http://www.multimap.com/ (United Kingdom)

http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm (US Atlas, 1895)

http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/gnis/ (Yale geographic name locator)

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/terra_findaspot_coordinate.htm

(One meter resolution aerial and satellite photography of the USA and select foreign locations. Enter geographic coordinates only)

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/terra_findaspot.htm

(One meter resolution aerial and satellite photography of the USA and select foreign locations. Select location from a map or enter a place name)

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GENERAL REFERENCE SITE - ALL IN ONE

http://www.refdesk.com/facts.html

=B7 Atlas & Maps

=B7 Beginner's Guides

=B7 Bios & Who's Who

=B7 Databases

=B7 Dictionaries

=B7 Electronic Texts

=B7 Encyclopedias

=B7 Genealogy

=B7 Government

=B7 Grammar & Style

=B7 History

=B7 Internet Resources

=B7 Law

=B7 Libraries

=B7 Miscellaneous

=B7 Phone Book

=B7 Population

=B7 Postal

=B7 Science

=B7 Thesaurus

=B7 Time & Date

=B7 Weights & Measures

=B7 World Religions

=B7 WWW Virtual Library

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VITAL RECORDS:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm

(center for health stats)

http://www.medaccess.com/address/vital_toc.htm (where to write)

http://www.inlink.com/~nomi/vitalrec/ (Naomi's list)

http://www.census-online.com/links/index.html#top (online census materials)

http://www.doitnow.com/~moravia/census.html (alternate, census online)

http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/ (searchable south)

CHECK AND CLEAN VIRUSES FROM YOU COMPUTER - free !

http://housecall.antivirus.com/explorer.html (Trend Microsystems)

Excellent - highly recommended on-line service - no charge)

GIANT GENEALOGY SITES:

http://www.hamrick.com/names/ (U.S. Surname Distribution from the U.S. census during various period in history)

http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html (barrel of links)

http://www.CyndisList.com (Cyndi's List)

http://www.wwnet.com/~krugman1/fgc/ (Ford Genealogy Club)

http://www.genforum.com/ (genealogy discussions)

http://www.polaris.net/~legend/genalogy.htm (genealogy gateway)

http://posom.com/hl/ (genealogy helplist)

http://www.citynet.net/mostwanted/ (genealogy's most wanted)

http://emcee.com/ (genealogy online)

http://genealogy.tbox.com/ (genealogy tool box)

http://www.gensource.com/ifoundit/ (genealogy search engine)

http://www.genhomepage.com/societies.html (genealogical societies)

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org (National Genealogical Society)

http://www.nehgs.org/ (New England Historic Genealogical Society)

http://www.rand.org/personal/Genea/ (Rand genealogy club)

http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/ (Roots Web Searches)

http://www.bc1.com/users/sgl/html/usa.htm (searchable genealogy links)

http://genealogy.travellor.com/genealogy/ (Travellor southern families)

http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/research/dbd.html (UofK S sourcelist)

http://www.usgenweb.com/ (US Genealogy web)

http://www.usigs.org/index.htm (US Internet Genealogical Society)

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/roots-l/genealog/genealog.vital-mo

(genealogical and historical societies of Missouri; to change states, delete "MO" and substitute the postal abbreviation of the state of your choice)

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CHURCH HISTORY:

http://www.ncccusa.org/ (National Council of Churches)

http://www.ats.edu/members/denom.htm (theological seminaries)

http://www.rrlc.org/guide/arc02.shtml (American Baptist)

http://www.cob-net.org/ (Church of the Brethren)

http://www.catholic.net/ (Roman Catholic Church)

http://www.cin.org/ (Catholic information network)

http://www.catholic.org/colweb/direct.html (Catholics web directory)

http://www.disciples.org/historc.htm (Disciples of Christ)

http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/ (Episcopal Church, USA)

http://www.elca.org/ (Evangelical Lutheran)

http://www.fum.org/ (Friends United/Quaker)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/index.htm (Quaker genealogy)

http://www.mercer.edu/mainlib/SpColl.html (Georgia Baptist)

http://www.lcms.org/ (Lutheran, Missouri Synod)

http://cmc2.cmc.edu/arc.html (Missouri United Methodist)

http://cc.owu.edu/~librweb/spuma.htm (Ohio United Methodist)

http://www.rca.org/ (Reformed Church in America)

http://www.ucc.org/ (United Church of Christ)

http://www.gcah.org/center.htm (United Methodist archives)

http://www.gcah.org/Conference/umcdirectory.htm (UMC state archives)

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ETHNIC RESEARCH:

http://genealogy.org/~palam/#iareg (Palatines to America)

http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~tbrass/AMST/Amst.html (Dutch in New Amsterdam)

http://www.familyworkings.com/genealogy1.htm (German Genealogy)

http://www.kst.dit.ie/nat-arch/index.html (Irelands national archives)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/index.html (Irish Genealogical Society)

http://gentreegenealogy.com (Irish Genealogy) http://www.anywhere.co.uk/news.html (Scots birth, death, marriage indices)

http://www.scotclans.com/ (Scot Clans)

http://www.tartans.com/genalogy.htm (Scots genealogy)

http://www.origins.net/GRO/ (Scotland General Register Office)

http://www.tartans.com/ (tartans)

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ (UK genealogy)

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ARCHIVES FOR MILITARY HISTORY & WARS:

http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/ (Canada war timeline)

http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/unit1.html (Civil War fighting units)

http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm (CW Dakota State)

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ (Civil War, U of KY)

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm (Civil War, LSU)

http://www.usgenweb.com/military/index.htm (military history for genealogy)

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/ (Military History Institute)

http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/millib/index.html (military libraries)

http://www.toast.net/~beau/gs1812.htm (Society of the War of 1812)

SOURCES FOR BOOKS:

http://www.appletons.com/homepage.html (Appleton's)

http://www.glbco.com/ (Blair's)

http://www.hearthstonebooks.com/ (Hearthstone)

http://www.higginsonbooks.com/genbooks.htm (Higginson genealogy)

http://www.hopefarm.com/genealog.htm (Hope Farm, NY books)

http://www.midcoast.com/~picton/ (Picton Press)

http://server.mediasoft.net/Scott/C/ (Willow Bend)

http://www.yogs.com/ (Ye Olde Gen Shop, Indianapolis)

LOOKUP SERVICES:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/#States (books we own)

http://www.mindspring.com/~wcrews/BooksPlus.html (mostly southern Books)

http://www.longstreet.net/census.html (census lookups)

http://www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/dar.html (DAR patriot index)

GENEALOGY MAILING LISTS - "HOW TO GUIDES":

http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html

http://members.aol.com/gresinet/gen_mail.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/

http://php.indiana.edu/~stephen/ownlists.htm

http://www.eskimo.com/~chance/lists.html

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STATE & REGIONAL GENEALOGY SOCIETIES:

http://www.asc.edu/archives/genealog.html (Alabama genealogy)

http://wwwcogensoc.org/cgs/cgs-home.htm (Colorado gen society)

http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/ (Connecticut library)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs/ (Florida gen society)

http://www.sos.state.il.us/ (Illinois Secretary of State)

http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/ (Indiana library)

http://www.uiowa.edu/~shsi/index.htm (Iowa historical society)

http://home.att.net/~ladylake10/ipl/ipl_main.htm (Iowa pioneers)

http://www.kumc.edu/kansas/KSL/Ref/ksl_ref.html (Kansas library)

http://mlin.lib.ma.us/ (Massachusetts Library and Information Network)

http://www.mnhs.org/ (Minnesota historical society)

http://mosl.sos.state.mo (Missouri archives)

http://www.system.missouri.edu/shs/ (Missouri historical society)

http://www.nehgs.org/ (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston)

http://www.state.nj.us/statelibrary/libgene.htm (New Jersey library)

http://www.sara.nysed.gov/ (New York archives)

http://unix2.nysed.gov/ (New York library)

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/vr.htm (New York vital records)

http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/ (North Carolina archives)

http://www.ohiohistory.org/ (Ohio historical society)

http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/ (Oklahoma museum of history)

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/ (Oregon archives)

http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Historical_Museum/DAM/overview.htm

(Pennsylvania archives)

http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/pde/LIDSTATE.HTML (Penn. Commonwealth library)

http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/respol.htm (South Carolina archives)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/escn_database_reports/ (old SC papers)

http://www.historic.com/schs/ (South Carolina historical society)

(USC's South Carolina library) (Tennessee library & archives)

http://www.vsla.edu/index.html (Virginia Library)

http://www.westvirginia.org/ (West Virginia online)

http://www.wisc.edu/shs-archives/ (Wisconsin historical society)

http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/www/wis_lib.html (online Wisconsin libraries)

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SURNAMES:

http://www.one-name.org/top.htm (Guild of One Name Studies)

http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/srchall.html (surname helper)

http://www.eskimo.com/~chance/lists.html (surname mailing lists)

http://www.gendex.com:8080/display?page=3Dsurnames& (surname search engine)

http://surnameweb.org/registry/ (surname web's registry)

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SEARCH FOR LAND TITLES AND LAND PATENTS:

http://www.avana.net/~lhaasdav/Patentlocations.html (all states)

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ (BLM eastern states land records)

http://www.innernet.net/hively/newpage29.htm (PA lands, with links)

http://image.vtls.com/collections/LO.html (Virginia land office records)

NEWSPAPERS:

http://www.dds.nl/~kidon/medie-link/uspapers.shtml (Kidon US Dailies)

(But if it doesn't work, note that the next two say Media-link and try

that)

http://www.dds.nl/~media-link/usweek.shtml (Kidon US Weeklies)

http://www.dds.nl/~kidon/media-link/capapers.shtml (Kidon Canada)

(state newspaper projects) (state projects list)

http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/index.asp (state associations, dailies by state)

CEMETERY RECORDS:

http://users.deltanet.com/~steven/cemetery.html (cemetery listings)

http://www.funeral.com/cemeterystates/ (cemetery listings)

http://www.funeralnet.com/cgi-local/notfound.pl?/ (funeral home listings)

http://www.dreamscape.com/goldlinks/cemetery.htm

http://www.Islandnet.com/ocfa/ (Ontario cemetery listings)

http://we.got.net/docent/cem/uscem.htm (US cemeteries)

http://www.inwd.com/death/usa.htm (US cemeteries)

OTHER RELATED GENEALOGY SITES:

http://www.firstct.com/fv/stone.html (breaking down the wall)

http://www.ala.org/alonline/ (American Library Association)

http://www.genealogy.org/~bcg/ (Board for Certification of Genealogists)

http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html (deciphering old handwriting)

http://www.nara.gov/regionals/stlouis.html (fed personnel records)

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Acres/3207/ (low Country Huguenots)

http://OfficialCitySites.com (index of local government sites)

http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/moa_search.html (Umich literature search)

http://www.vanished.com/pages/database.html (misc. online databases)

http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us (Mid-Continent Public Library)

http://www.libraryspot.com/librariesonline.htm (libraries everywhere)

(Philadelphia)

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ (Zip Codes)

==== GenChat Mailing List ====

For a complete listing of internet genealogy mailing lists, check out:

http://users.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html

This is just starting, stay tuned or send tips!

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