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Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode
Island, is a state in the New
England region of the United
States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area.
Rhode Island borders Connecticut to the west, Massachusetts
to the north and east, and shares a water boundary with New
York's Long Island to the
southwest. Despite the
name, most of Rhode Island is in fact on the mainland. The name Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations derives from the merging of two
colonies, Providence Plantations and Rhode Island. Providence Plantations was
the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the
City of Providence. Rhode Island was the area now known as Aquidneck
Island, which now comprises the city of Newport and the towns of Middletown and Portsmouth, the largest of
several islands in Narragansett Bay. Rhode Island
was the first of the thirteen original colonies
to declare independence from British rule and the last to ratify the United States Constitution. Rhode Island's
official nickname is "The Ocean State", a reference to the state's
geography, as nearly one tenth of the state's inland area is covered by salt
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GENEALOGICAL
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337 Westminster Street,
Providence, RI 02903; (401) 222-2353, FAX (401) 222-3199, |
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American-french
Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 2113, Pawtucket 02861-0113 ·
Little Compton
Historical Society, P.O. Box 577, Little Compton 02837 ·
Italian Genealogy
Society Of America, P.O. Box 8571, Cranston 02920-8571 ·
Rhode Island Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 433,
Greenville 02828 ·
Rhode Island Black
Heritage Society, 46 Aborn Street, Providence 02903 ·
Rhode Island Historical Society, 110 Benevolent St,
Providence 02906-3103 ·
Charlestown Historical
Society, P.O. Box 100, Charlestown 02813-0100 ·
Cranston Historical Society, 1351 Cranston Street,
Cranston 02920 ·
Newport Historical Society, 82 Touro
Street, Newport 02840 ·
Rhode Island Labor History Society, 36 Upper College Rd.
Hart House, Kingston 02881 ·
Ri Jewish Historical Association, 130 Sessions Street, Providence 02906 ·
Westerly Historical
Society, P.O. Box 91, Westerly 02891 ·
Rhode Island
Mayflower Descendants, 128 Massasoit, Warwick 02888 |
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Office of Library and
Information Services One Capitol Hill, Providence RI 02908-5803, (401)574-9300; Fax: (401)574-9320 |
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following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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The following named counties are associated with
the history of our DIRECT ancestors.
To select a specific ancestral county, click on the following link.
Here you will find additional links to our county pages where you can obtain
information about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of
persons, in our database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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Resources
which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are
almost as important as their names.
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the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and other helpful resources
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The links below may assist you
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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Rhode Island
Cities - profiles of 372 Rhode Island cities, towns & neighborhoods Rhode Island Physical Features such as lakes,
islands & steams Rhode Island Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Rhode Island Civil Features such as Native
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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U. S. State. |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium
> Genealogy > USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb
- Libraries on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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