2a.SPOTLIGHT ON SOME DISTINCTIVE WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB ENGLAND. ONE-PLACE GENEALOGY. Jane McHugh provides an excellent example of how "one-place studies" function in her Northeast Derbyshire (England) Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spire/ NEW NETHERLAND NOTABLES. Notable people and their spouses with New Netherland roots. You may be kin to some of them and surprised at how entangled their Dutch roots really are. Be sure to check the "Person Index" on the main page. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nnnotables/ U.S. GENEALOGY MAP PROJECT: State, County, Territory Maps. Constructed primarily for family history research, it also can be used for U.S. history and geography. Contains maps with information about border changes and land transfers from 1783 to the present, indicating land acquisitions to U.S. territories through statehood and more. http://usgenmap.rootsweb.com/usgenmap.htm 2b. FINDING YOUR SCOTTISH ANCESTORS ONLINE CLASS.($29.95). Class starts Monday, February 4. Learn how to research your Scottish ancestry with Janet Reakes. Includes genealogy basics, plus such topics as Sasine records, surname databases, clan societies, Scottish civil registration districts, and Gretna Green and Border marriages. http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=gentraining 2c. ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, IRELAND PARISH, and PROBATE RECORDS. Can't find your ancestor in the census? Try parish or probate records. As part of the UK/Ireland Collection at Ancestry.com you can search more than 15 million names in its United Kingdom and Ireland Parish and Probate databases. These subscription databases are a collection of historical parish and probate registers. Records range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. Some non-parish records are included from as early as the 12th century. Parish records--primarily baptisms, marriages, and burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches. All of the data was converted as it was originally presented in various published registers and books. For this reason, you will find interesting phonetic spellings and large descriptive tables of contents. Click here to learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3323&sourceid=481 -- Chrystie - Lists Administrator for Rootsweb BROOKOVER, COWGER, KRABAL, MAYORS, MAJOR, MOYERS, MYRES, SWECKER Home of MYERS GENEALOGY.COM