Genealogy Surnames

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• FamilySearch   
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has placed its entire genealogy database online. The Mormon Church has long been noted as an excellent genealogy resource and is famous the World over. Easily search for your ancestors here.
  http://www.familysearch.org/
• GENDEX - WWW Genealogical Index   
  
  This site indexes hundreds of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for an estimated eight million individuals, and gives you the ability to locate and view data of interest to you on a variety of databases, without having to go and visit each of the databases separately.
  http://www.gendex.com/gendex/

• Ancestry World Tree
  
  Search this database for lost links in your family tree or discover new ones. From Ancestry.com.
  http://www.ancestry.com/worldtree/tree.htm
• Common Threads
  
  Search limited to surnames only. Helpful to find others searching the for the same hertiage.
  http://www.gensource.com/common/
• Cyndi's List
  
  Personal web sites submitted to Cyndi's huge list. Contains many family names and resources provided by those individuals.
  http://www.CyndisList.com/home-a.htm
• Ellis Island
  
  Reconnect with your own immigrant heritage and discover ways to honor your family for posterity on The American Immigrant Wall of Honor® and research your family's arrival in America at The American Family Immigration History Center™.
  http://www.ellisisland.org/
• Find a Grave
  
  Although this sites contains listings for only famous people, it does have links and addresses to many of the cemetaries across the Nation. If your trying to find the grave site of anyone notable, it's probably here, some even with photographs.
  http://www.findagrave.com/
• Global Surname Search
  
  Search this database for your surname by country or the entire index.
  http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi?search
• Hall of Names
  
  Returns the origin of a family name and then a little excerpt of its heritage.
  http://www.infokey.com/hon/
• Internet FamilyFinder
  
  Searchable database of individual and family surnames. This site recently moved to speed up searches (although it seems extremely slower to us). Although this site has some free searches, any search or search results which denote a CD is available only for a fee $. From Family Tree Maker Online.
  http://www.familytreemaker.com/ifftop.html
• Irish Genealogy
  
  Links to many Irish surnames and resources.
  http://www.irish-insight.com/a2z-genealogy/index.html
• Surname.com
  
  Several resources here to search for a family surname.
  http://www.surnames.com/
• Surname Resources
  
  Resources to help search for a family surname. From the Mining Co.
  http://genealogy.tqn.com/msubmenu01.htm
• Surname Springboard
  
  A comprehensive listing of surname genealogy sites which have 'indexed' family trees.
  http://www.geocities.com/~alacy/spring.htm
• Yahoo! - Lineages and Surnames
  
  Hundreds of surnames to begin your genealogical search or to obtain additional information on your family tree.
  http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/ Genealogy/Lineages_and_Surnames/

    See also :

• Genealogy Research
  
• Telephone Directories
  
• Unclaimed Property Indexes
  
• Usenet Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.methods