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SurnameThesaurus - The SurnameThesaurus has 165,226,795 entries for 3,274,214 distinct surnames. It uses NameX technology to identify name variants with significantly higher precision and recall than Soundex or Metaphone. ^new (Added: 20-Oct-2008 Hits: 394 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

Books We Own : Family History by Surname - Books We Own is a list of resources owned/accessed by individuals who are willing to look up genealogical information. ^pop (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 1113 Rating: 7.76 Votes: 16) Rate It

GenealogySearch.org - Everything you need for genealogical research online. ^pop (Added: 19-Dec-1999 Hits: 7766 Rating: 8.46 Votes: 765) Rate It

Sassytazzy's Online Genealogy Research Library - 1000's of pages of Free On Site genealogy research & records -- transcriptions, extracts & images. Site contains all kinds of genealogy related information (very few links to off-site information): Bible records; birth, death & marriage; deeds & land; wills & probate; manuscripts, documents & book transcriptions; research notes; letters & correspondence; obituaries & other types of printed material; census & tax (complete transcriptions of 1860 Amelia Co., VA & Prince Edward Co., VA census); headstone inscriptions & cemetery records; Revolutionary war & Civil war (some Civil War rosters); old photographs, etc. Tons of surnames & locations (mostly United States). Not just my research, includes a lot of information shared by other generous researchers. ^pop (Added: 6-May-2004 Hits: 1361 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

Surname Directory: Index of Independent Surname Websites - Index of independent surname websites and other surname resources. Origin, meanings and history of surnames. ^pop (Added: 1-Jan-2005 Hits: 1112 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

Surname Helper - Surname Helper is a surname engine for queries and surname registrations posted on various genealogy sites. Participating sites include many USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb sites. All GenConnect boards are indexed in Surname Helper. Surname Helper is also used by the USGenWeb QueryExpress system for registering counties. ^pop (Added: 12-Jul-2001 Hits: 1505 Rating: 6.75 Votes: 4) Rate It

Arabic Name - Old Arabic names are based on a very sophisticated naming system: most Arabs do not simply have first/middle/last names, but a full chain of names. This system is still in use in many Arab countries. (Added: 6-Dec-2005 Hits: 451 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

Connecting Family Dots - Skinner, Close, Devore, Ellwood, Hoyt, Smith, Bowersock, Putenney, Waite, Clemmer, Hatcher, Francis, Goings, Miller, Buckley, Hollingsworth, Ritchie, Richardson (Added: 5-Nov-2004 Hits: 686 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

Surname Message Board - This board is for the discussion of surnames: their meaning, origin, history, usage, etc. (Added: 6-May-2007 Hits: 273 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

Surname to Soundex Code Generator (Added: 16-Jun-2005 Hits: 414 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

The Soundex Indexing System - To use the census soundex to locate information about a person, you must know his or her full name and the state or territory in which he or she lived at the time of the census. Read more... (Added: 30-Jan-2006 Hits: 380 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It