Ginny -You are a God-send! Thank you - didn't know of this site. Thank you also to everyone else who was so quick to respond to my question and thanks for all the leads. I will be busy for a while! :-) Vickie Buettner -----Original Message----- From: John A. (Jack) Davidson [SMTP:jdavid@uswest.net] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 12:58 PM To: ILSTANNE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILSTANNE] GELINO Q and PRDH database Ginny, On a quick inspection, looks fantastic ! But do they intend that a credit card subscription be made by e-mail with encryption ? I could not find a form to fill out. Did I miss something ? Jack Davidson Lakewood, CO VCrawf@aol.com wrote: > Hello, everyone: here's some information about a research site you may not > all be aware of. And Vickie - here's cheering news for you (or, an > embarrassment of riches, perhaps) ! > > On reading Vickie's inquiry, I went to the University of Montreal database > for Quebec in 1621-1799. If you do not know this site ("PRDH"), you will > probably want to add it to your address list. It is great! The U has > extracted and recorded every Quebec surname that could be found in legal > documents (BMD, land transfers, etc.) of that time period. You can see the > text of each document on which your target name appears for a small fee > (about $15 US per month for maybe 50 such inquiries). But you can log on > AT NO CHARGE to see whether there are any entries for your target name, > before you sign up. [ Web-address below.] > > A nice bonus is the VARIANT list - for example, I asked the site to find me > the so-called "standard name" and any other variants for GELINO - and lo, > here's what came up: > > Standard name Variant Freq. > GELINEAU EGELINEAU 2 > GELINEAU GELINAU 26 > GELINEAU GELINAUD 1 > GELINEAU GELINAUDE 1 > GELINEAU GELINAUT 9 > GELINEAU GELINAUX 9 > GELINEAU GELINEAU 226 > GELINEAU GELINEAUX 3 > GELINEAU GELINO 236 > GELINEAU GELINOT 203 > GELINEAU GELINOTTE 2 > GELINEAU GELLINAU 1 > GELINEAU GELLINEAU 2 > GELINEAU GELNOT 1 > GELINEAU GELONAUT 1 > GELINEAU GENILAUDE 1 > GELINEAU GENILEAU 3 > GELINEAU GILINAUT 2 > GELINEAU GILINEAU 1 > GELINEAU GILINO 3 > > The address of the page on which this appeared is > http://www.genealogy.umontreal.ca/en/public/Rech_Nom.asp?N=GELINO > > The address of the home page is: > http://www.genealogy.umontreal.ca/en/default.htm > > Cheers! er - Salut! > > Ginny ============================== Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: http://pml.rootsweb.com/