From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun May 21 11:52:05 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4LHq5jb005139; Sun, 21 May 2006 11:52:05 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4LHq2jB025590 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 11:52:02 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4LFHTFI008082 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 11:17:29 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k4LFHTNo008081 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 21 May 2006 11:17:29 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k4LECXFI007909 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 10:12:33 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k4LGktaP000386 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 21 May 2006 10:46:55 -0600 X-Envelope-From: karen@mtpinos.com Sun May 21 10:46:55 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4LGktjb000377 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 10:46:55 -0600 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [63.173.235.138]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4LGkfxt015625 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 10:46:41 -0600 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2E337CA78 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 09:46:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC1 To: roots-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] better Search In-Reply-To: Message from Paulette Gilchuk of "Sun, 21 May 2006 10:23:32 MDT." <44709404.2090705@chodovepeople.com> References: <000201c67c53$aec82580$5454e5d8@VALUEDB8142DE8> <44709404.2090705@chodovepeople.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:46:39 -0700 From: Karen Isaacson Leverich Message-Id: <20060521164639.EF2E337CA78@bw-10.mtpinos.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Another approach (nowhere NEAR exhaustive) for surnames that are also common words: go to Linkpendium and type the name in the surname box (in the blue bar near the top of the page). Putting in "May" (for instance) will take you to: http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/surc-M/surc-May/sur-May/ This page has 164 links to pages with information about the surname May (as opposed to the month of May, people whose first name is May, the game "Mother May I", etc.) If you know of any neat pages with information for the May surname (there must be several), click on the "Add your Website to this page" link and tell Linkpendium about them. Linkpendium's main page is http://www.linkpendium.com/ Karen