What's in a Name?
See if you can find your name using one of the links below. Look
up your first or middle name as well as your family ("surname").
Check 50states.com (under
"Genealogical Resources: ROOTS-L") to find when persons with your surname
first moved into the state where you were born. E-mail your counselor and
summarize what you learned about your name(s).
CAUTION: Do not
request any information from the sites. You do not
want to purchase any information or products.
The Etymology
of First Names
[http://www.pacificcoast.net/~muck/etym.html]
Ancestry.com - Online Genealogy
[http://www.ancestry.com/worldtree/]
Gendex - WWW Genealogical Index
[http://www.gendex.com/gendex/]
Hall of Names: Surname Family Histories
[http://www.infokey.com/]
Roots-L
[http://www.rootsweb.com/]