In a message dated 1/15/01 2:55:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, tethomps@bluemarble.net writes: > Subj: [FRENCH-L] SURNAME DISTRIBUTION TOOL > Date: 1/15/01 2:55:22 AM Pacific Standard Time > From: tethomps@bluemarble.net (T. Thompson) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com">FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com</A> > To: FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > I'm not sure of the accuracy of this tool... but it is > definitely interesting. > > Enter a surname (last name) into the form and you'll get a map of the > United States showing the distribution of people with this surname > within the 50 > United States. This map is often helpful when trying to determine a > starting > point for genealogy projects. > > The source of this data is the 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1920 Census, > and > 1990's phone books. Note that the Census data is a sampling of 1 in 100 > names, so the 1990 data is the most accurate. > > It just might give you a hint where you need to look. > > http://genbooks.hypermart.net/search/distribution.html > > > > ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- > Return-Path: <FRENCH-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Received: from rly-ye04.mx.aol.com (rly-ye04.mail.aol.com > [172.18.151.201]) by air-ye02.mail.aol.com (v77.14) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Jan > 2001 05:55:22 -0500 > Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by > rly-ye04.mx.aol.com (v77.27) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:54:57 -0500 > Received: (from slist@localhost) > by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f0FApKJ05631; > Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:51:20 -0800 > Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:51:20 -0800 > X-Original-Sender: tethomps@bluemarble.net Mon Jan 15 02:51:20 2001 > Message-ID: <3A62D6DB.B5273B48@bluemarble.net> > Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:54:19 -0500 > From: "T. Thompson" <tethomps@bluemarble.net> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Old-To: French <FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com>, Johnson-List <JOHNSON-L@rootsweb.com > >, > McConnell Maillist <MCCONNELL-L@rootsweb.com>, > Owen mail list <INOWEN-L@rootsweb.com>, > Thompson email list Thompson <THOMPSON-L@rootsweb.com>, > WISE-L@rootsweb.com, > SWANN-L@rootsweb.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Subject: [FRENCH-L] SURNAME DISTRIBUTION TOOL > Resent-Message-ID: <5AHJP.A.xXB.oYtY6@lists5.rootsweb.com> > To: FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com > Reply-To: FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/3976 > X-Loop: FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: FRENCH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > I have just tried it and it gave me a response that the site wasn't accepting requests . What the heck? Bill Frech