Hello list, I'm Arlan Maguire, the "administrator" of this mail list and the County Coordinator for the Kent County RI USGenWeb site. The purpose of this list is to correspond with others who may have genealogical and/or historical interests in Kent County RI It is set up so that all messages and the replies to them will be sent to all subscribers, in this manner you may gain new information through the discussions of others. We have quite a few subscribers now and it would be nice to get some discussions going, It would be helpful if all of you would list your surnames of interest in Kent County and other areas in RI and new England, you might find others on this list that are researching some of the same surnames as you. Post any questions you may have or post any information you feel will be helpful to others, If we can get some discussions going, feel free to join in, that is the purpose of this list. ************ About the USGenWeb Project: The USGenWeb Project is in the process of creating Web Sites (Home Pages) for EVERY COUNTY in these United States. Most counties are online with over 85% having County Coordinators assigned. THE USGenWeb PROJECT is a non-commercial enterprise with free information available to the public. Volunteers throughout the United States are creating COUNTY CENTERS for Internet genealogical research for EVERY COUNTY in the United States. As you browse the pages, you will find some consistent elements. All counties will have an area for: QUERIES - Posting & reading LOOK-UPS - Requesting Volunteer to do look ups SURNAMES - Listing Your Surnames (for that county) LINKS to Related Pages BIBLIOGRAPHY of helpful addresses & print material ********* Here are a few helpful links Kent County RI USGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rikent/kent.html You will find information and links to Kent County repositories along with links to the other RI counties USGenWeb pages, there is also a link to the RIGENWEB page. Census Online: Links - RI http://www.census-online.com/links/RI.html The RI Historical Cemeteries Master Index was last updated August 1999. The information page is http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/ and the search page is http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/search.html Rhode Island Genexchange: http://www.genexchange.com/counties.cfm?state=ri ************* Some of my surname interests in Kent County are Maguire, Slafter/Slater, Sweet. I have extensive information on the Maguire, Darling, and Slafter lines along with several of their collateral lines, some dating back to the mid 1500s, and am willing to share this information. My "brick wall" is my 4th G.Grandfather, Constantine Maguire, the only information I have about him is his name, his father's name(John) his wife's given name(Ruth) the names and birthdates of his one son, John Maguire, and 3 daughters, His children were born in Warwick and East Greenwich between 1749 and 1757, I can not find any trace of Constantine or his wife before or after those dates, I would like to contact anyone with Maguire connections to compare notes. In my research I have gained a small amount of information about other Maguire lines in RI that as of yet I have not been able to connect with, this informatrion may be useful to others. Good hunting to all of you, hope to see you on the list, -- Arlan Maguire... Kent County Rhode Island USGenweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rikent/kent.html ************ Maguire Genealogy Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~amaguire/ Researching: Maguire,Slater/Slafter,Darling,Rowland,Craig,Benjamin,Ingebrigtson,Magnussen ************ Surname Boards: Maguire: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/mag/Maguire Darling: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dar/Darling Slafter: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/sla/Slafter Slater: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/s/l/SLATER/queries