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The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America)
is a federal constitutional republic
comprising fifty states and a federal
district. The country is situated mostly in central North
America, where its forty-eight contiguous states
and Washington, D.C., the capital district,
lie between the Pacific and Atlantic
Oceans, bordered by Canada
to the north and Mexico
to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with
Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering
Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago
in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories,
or insular
areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83
million km2) and with about 308 million people, the United States
is the third or fourth largest
country by total area, and the third largest by land area and population.
The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural
nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many
countries. The U.S. economy is the largest
national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP)
of US $14.4 trillion (a quarter
of nominal global GDP
and a fifth of global GDP at purchasing power parity). Indigenous peoples,
probably of Asian descent,
have inhabited what is now the mainland United States for many thousands of
years. This Native American
population was greatly reduced after European contact
by disease and warfare. The United States was founded by thirteen British colonies
located along the Atlantic seaboard.
On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of
Independence, which proclaimed their right to self-determination and their
establishment of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War,
the first successful colonial war of independence.
The Philadelphia Convention
adopted the current United States Constitution
on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states
part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising
ten constitutional
amendments guaranteeing many fundamental
civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791. In the 19th century, the United States
acquired land from France, Spain, the United
Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia,
and annexed
the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes
between the agrarian South and industrial North over states'
rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery
provoked the American Civil War of the
1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led
to the end
of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national
economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World
War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945,
the United States emerged from World
War II as the first country with
nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security
Council, and a founding member of NATO.
Contributions to the space age and social
movements followed, and the end of the Cold
War and the dissolution of the
Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower.
The country accounts for two-fifths of global military spending
and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world. |
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HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
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Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District Of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
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The
following are surnames of direct ancestors, found within our
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Abbott; Aguillon; Aquitaine;
Armstrong; Artois-Capet; Bacon(Grimbaldus); Badlesmere; Ball;
Bardolf(Fitzbardolf/Fitzeudes); Basset;
Bayhall;
Baynard;
Beard; Beaufo; Beaumont; Belleme; Bennett; Bishop; Bleasdale; Blew;
Bodrugan; Bonde; Booker; Bracken; Brienne; Brown; Brumwell; Buchan;
Campbell; Carminow; Carter; Chamberlain; Chanudos; Chaworth; Childress; Christie
Christman; Clemens(Clemmons); Clements; Cloue; Coleman;
Comyn(Comines); Culpepper(Colepeper); Cummings; Demoss; Dickson; Douglass; Dowdle; Dugale; Eades; Edney; England;
Eremburgis;
Eubanks(Eubank/Ubanck);
Euliss; Falaise; Felton;
Ferrers;
Fitzhenry;
Flanders; Foliot; Fresney; Freville; Gainsford; Gardner; Giffard; Gila;
Goode; Green; Hanham: Hanslope; Hardreshull; Hawyse; Hingham:
Howson; Johnson, D; Johnson, M.E.; Jordan;
Kerr; Kraemer; L’aigle; Langston; Lavel; Lawson; Limes;
Lineberry(Leyenberger/Lineberger);
Loux; Mare;
Martin; Mason; Mauduit; Mcvicker; Moffat; Moleyns; Montrevault; Moreland; Mougenat; Murdac; Mynston; Neely; Neuvillers; Nevers; Normandy;
Parker (1); Parker(2); Pasque; Patten; Peachee; Pinnell; Plantagenet; Pole:
Portner; Poynings; Provence;
Pugeys;
Quincy; Raleigh; Rhodes; Ringuelsbach; Robertson; Rohrbach: Roper;
Ross; Royston; Say;
Scotland; Scruggs; Sheperd; Smith; Stevens:
Sturler;
Stuteville;
Taillefer-D’angouleme: Thon; Todd; Tomson; Vandiford; Vere; Wade; Wake;
Walker; Waller; Werli(Verly); Whalesborough; Wimer(Fitzwimer/Fitzroger); Wright; Yarbrough; Zandt |
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Asay; Bishop; Bozarth; Brown;
Council; Gilbert;
Hall; Huff; Mason-Marson;
Nailor / Naylor; Peiffer; Platt;
Quigley; Rhubart; Ridgeway;
Rinear;
Sears; Shinn; West |
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Abel; Arnold; Attig; Bannheurs; Barth
(Bard); Beck; Beissel; Blau; Born; Boyer; Bracher; Cammerer;
Chateau(Schatto); Clement; Dellinger; Forster; Gamer; Gardner(Gartner); Gilbert; Gossner; Haas(Hasen);
Hauer; Haug; Hayes; Heidecker;
Ilges(Ellis); Jacobs; Katterman;
Keller; Klein; Knecht; Kohler; Kieffer(Kueffer); Laux; Leyonberger; Leiberknecht; Mildenberg;
Mueller; Muller; Nagel; Pfeffer; Precht;
Reinhardt; Ruppert;
Schaffer; Schall(Shaul); Schieck; Schmid;
Schaeffer; Schuster; Siler(Silar); Stober; Ulrich; Wagner; Ziegler; Zeister |
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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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Ancestral states
The following named States are associated with
the history of our DIRECT ancestors.
To select a specific ancestral State, click on the following link.
Here you will find additional links to our state and 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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Alabama; California; Colorado;
Delaware; Florida; Georgia;
Illinois; Indiana; Kansas;
Kentucky; Maryland; Missouri;
New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Ohio;
Oklahoma; Pennsylvania; South Carolina; Tennessee; Texas;
Virginia; West Virginia |
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Resources
which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are
almost as important as their names.
The LINK |
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the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and other helpful resources
that will assist you in discovering Ancestral Locations. |
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The links below may assist you
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The following Links will take you to
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U.S.
And Territories (USGS-GNIS Place Name Search) Directory of Cities, Towns, in
United States U.S. Gazetteer (Census Bureau) List of U.S. state name
etymologies List of U.S. counties in
alphabetical order |
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the State’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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Massachusetts |
New York |
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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 state. 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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GENERAL RESOURCES |
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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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USA Collected
links to historical data ·
National Atlas of the United States ·
Wikimedia Atlas of the United
States |
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Census Finder - Free Census Records
Online ·
Family
History and Genealogy on FirstGov.gov ·
RootsWeb Message Boards (United States) ·
Linkpendium:
Genealogy Links (USA) ·
Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
United States Genealogy
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The
following Links
will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to the United States. Here you will find volumes about U.S.
General and Military History, Immigration and Naturalization, Migration in
the U.S., as well as general geographical and genealogical reference books. The
U.S.A. Locations Library contains books about the history and records of the
various States, as well as their 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. U.S.A.
Locations Library - States, Counties, & Localities |
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