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Absolutely Family! - A Guide to Editing and Publishing a Family Newsletter

A book by Jeanne Rundquist Nelson.

Acadian Genealogy Homepage - Surnames Appearing on USBs

Acadian/French-Canadian SURNAME Researchers

From the Acadian Genealogy Homepage.

Advice from the Experts: Running a Family Association

All Irish Clans and Names

Find out about Clans dealing with your Irish Surname.

Ancestor Guide: Genealogy and Surname Search

Simply browse through the listing of over 47,000 surname categories or find it fast with our surname search engine.

AncestralFindings.com - Post Your Hard To Find Surnames Here !

Ancestry.com - Last Names and Their Meanings

Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Surnames

BBC - Family History - What's In a Name? Your Link to the Past

Changing Immigrant Names

From the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Includes a list of reasons for name changes and links to stories about how names were changed.

Chinese Surnames

[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Council of Scottish Clans and Associations' (COSCA)

Dead Fred - Free genealogy family history photo search by surname

A searchable database with thousands of identified photos and mystery photos.

Directory for Family Associations and Family Organizations

More than 500 listings for websites of family associations and family organizations.

English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations

English last name meanings from the 1875 book by Charles Wareing Bardsley. Completely free.

Family Name

Definitions & world-wide naming customs from Wikpedia.

Family Newsletter News

Perk up your family newsletter by learning from other family newsletter publishers' experiences and ideas. This newsletter, for and about family newsletters (and their publishers) was established to encourage family connections through the family newsletter. It is for genealogists, family historians, and folks who want to keep their families in touch. Includes publishing pointers and highlight actual family newsletters as examples.

Family Newsletter Registry and Surname Search

A searchable database of family newsletters and the surnames associated with them from around the world.

Family Newsletters List

List of genealogy newsletters available for specific surnames.