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From: Diane Ward Sives <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Re: Surname lists, archives and message boards
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:08:33 -0400
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I have had this question posed to me so I decided to reply to the lists
to help others find surname lists.

To find a surname list go to:

http://www.rootsweb.com/


Then look for the section that is called:

Mailing Lists

then click on

Surname List Finder

and type in any surname you desire


If you would like to browse the lists or look for variant spellings of
your surname:

click on Index (Browse all lists)

Look for the Surname section

then click on a surname letter and look for other variant spellings.

For example:
If one was looking for Nichols

The following lists are created

Nickel
Nickels
Nickell
Nickles
Nichol
Nichols
Nicholl
Nicholls

If this were a surname I was interested in; I would sign up for all of
these lists and also search the archives for these lists too.

For the Archives; look under Mailing lists again:

Click on Interactive Lists

Type in the name of a valid list (one listed in the above steps)

or click on Threaded Archives and type in the name of a valid list. This
shows the messages by month and year and tells you how many messages
there were in that month and year.

Let me know if I can be of any other help in finding things. Also, in
your search don't forget the message boards. There are message boards on
Ancestry.com (accessible from either the http://www.Rootsweb.com
homepage or on http://www.Ancestry.com homepage

there are also surname boards at genealogy.com

http://genforum.genealogy.com/

Diane Ward Sives

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