Finding Surnames from Many Resources

By Lorelle VanFossen
Categories: Genealogy Resources

Surname Helper is an interesting family history research tool that searches over a dozen resources for a specific surname.

Resources include the following, which can be set to search all of a category of one of these specific categories:

  • USGenWeb/WorldGenWeb
  • Personal Genealogy Pages
  • Surname Pages
  • Bible Records
  • Biographies
  • Birth Records
  • Cemetery Records
  • Census
  • Church Records
  • Court Records
  • Directories
  • Death Records
  • Marriage Records
  • Land Records
  • Maps
  • Military Records
  • Obituaries
  • Newspaper Indexes

The variety of possible resources it can research is amazing. You can even narrow the search by geographic area and use wildcards with the surname to expand the possibilities.

According to notes on the site, the resources searched come from queries and surname registrations posted on various genealogy sites including USGenWeb, WorldGenWeb, amd GenConnect boards. With all the vast resources available, I was able to dig up some interesting information to help with my family research. Why not give it a try. It’s free and covers a lot of territory that you might have overlooked.

Article Information

Finding Surnames from Many Resources is Issue Number 53 published June 6, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 236 articles for our our family history blog.

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2 Responses to “Finding Surnames from Many Resources”

  1. wayne camper Says:
    December 14th, 2006 at 9:38 am

    i am doing research on family name of kemper/camper from ky to in

  2. Lorelle VanFossen Says:
    December 15th, 2006 at 10:16 am

    So far, I have no information on those names yet.

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