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Surnames on Genealogy Network

Posted by The Genealogy Box on September 12, 2009 at 12:47pm
There are 300 surnames being researched on the Genealogy Network NING.Surname Group NameAday Genealogy Network NINGAdshead Genealogy Network NINGAlderton Genealogy Network NINGAllaway Genealogy Network NINGAllen Genealogy Network NINGAllen Genealogy Network NINGAltschuler Genealogy Network NINGAmbrose Genealogy Network NINGAmeigh Genealogy Network NINGAnderson Genealogy Network NINGAndert Genealogy Network NINGAppleby Genealogy Network NINGArmstrong Genealogy Network NINGBarnes Genealogy Network
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How I Get the Most Out of GW

Posted by Sherry Hightower on August 18, 2009 at 12:52pm
There are so many groups now and that is a good thing, but as I stated in my previous blog, you just can not check out every one of them.If I were new to GenealogyWise, after I set up my page with the surnames I am researching, etc, I would go to the groups main page. Then I would start researching all the surnames on my list. You will see in the results, not only the group which is about that surname, but the other groups where a comment has been left about that surname.I would also search the
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Spelling can be misleading...

Posted by Jennifer Eklund, PLCGS on July 10, 2009 at 12:39pm
Several years ago I sent out an S.O.S. on a message board to find information on an ancestor. A man who's first name was spelled Frances. A member of the board who happened to be an English teacher replied to me with a lecture about how I was spelling the man's name wrong. Frances with an "e" is the feminine. Francis with an "i" is the masculine. She told me I needed to change the spelling because I was spelling his name wrong.What the English teacher did not understand was that back in the 1800
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