Hello list, I need your help, this list is for your benefit and can be very useful in your research, however it seems we cannot get any discussions going, all it takes is a few postings to get it going good. You can ask any questions that you may have you can post any information you may have if you know of any genelogical sources you can post them here send us some stories, a little humor is good for everyone. At this time I'd like to ask for a Roll Call so we all can get to know each other a little bit and know which surnames each of us is looking for. Should you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact me privately at amag0254@flash.net I'm here to assist you! *********** Here are some tips for Rhode Island researchers Each county has "lookup volunteers" that will do research for you, look for them on each county page and also on the RIGENWEB state page. The LDS(Mormon Church) has an online site where you may find information about your ancestors around the world, plus they have all types of resources available, you can download their genealogy program(PAF-Ver4) for free, it has many new and useful features over the previous versions, you can even create genealogy web pages with it: http://www.familysearch.org/ ******************* NOTE: The following is posted as a source of genealogical information only and not as an advertisement. Rootsweb does not condone advertising on their mail lists. ******************* The complete set of twenty-one volumes of Arnolds Vital Records of Rhode Island is now available on CD at: http://www.cdventure.com/ It contains the The Town Records of Rhode Island, consisting of the births, deaths and marriages, which are contained in the first six volumes. The exceptions to this are the Town Records of Seekonk and Pawtucket, which appear in Volumes 9 and 10. Various Church Records are to be found in Volumes 7 through 11. Volume 12 contains information on the Revolutionary service of many Rhode Island men, and also begins the series of newspaper extractions. The remaining volumes contain the marriage and death records to be found in a number of Rhode Island newspapers. Visit their site at http://www.cdventure.com/ and explore the manual and download sample content for this CD-ROM. It is combined for both Macintosh and Windows. ******************** You will find the following search engines helpful each one will search through thousands of genealogy related databases for the surnames you enter and in most cases you can contact the submitters and exchange information with them. GenConnect Search Engine http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi?search Surname Helper Search Engine http://surhelp.rootsweb.com/srchall.html Roots Surname List http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi The following are two very helpful "Rootsweb" resource pages, each one contains valuable information about surnames and locations along with several types of search engines. The first one all you need do is scroll to a surname of interest and you will receive all of the information housed at rootsweb about that particular surname. http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/ At the next site click on the state of your choice, then on the county of your choice and you will receive all of the resource information housed at rootsweb available for that county http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/ The following website is the Rhode Island Cemeteries Database. It's quite amazing, you will find many of your RI ancestors listed there. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/ The following site is a listing of genealogy sites with Rhode Island ties, it is indexed by surnames and page owners, it can be very useful in your research: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rikent/home/index.html Good hunting to all of you, -- 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