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US, 3 in the UK, and scarce everywhere else.
You can also look in smaller areas for the most
common surnames there. In Texas, after Smith,
Johnson, Williams, and Jones comes Garcia,
Rodriguez, Martinez and Hernandez.
TJC
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http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap
This geographical information systems map site
will produce an outline footprint of buildings in
New York City and display aerial photographs of
the site at various times. You just provide the
street address. Do you have Yankees among your
predecessors?
Addresses must be complete with Street,
Avenue, Boulevard, etc.
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www.stlgs.org/ecommCDs.aspx.
The St. Louis Genealogical Society announces
CD versions of-
St. Louis Burials, Vol. 3
Quarterly of the STLGS, including indexes to the
first 40 years, 2 CDs
Web Resources, a reprint of 5 years contents of
the newsletter News 'n Notes
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www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/nyregion/19kean.html
Curators at Kean University recently found a
population count of the United States done at
least four years before the country's first official
census in 1790. The paper, which was all
handwritten, was in a ledger with files from John
Kean, a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional
Convention. The count appears to have been
conducted by the states separately between 1781
and 1786, apparently in person.
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We continue the list of diseases that your
ancestors may have suffered, but that
you are unlikely to have your own doctor
diagnose. We call these Afflictions from A to Z.
| Bilious fever | | Typhoid, malaria,
hepatitus |
| Camp madness | | Rabies, hydrophobia |
| Canker | | Ulcers on mouth or lips,
Herpes simplex |
| Paroxysm | | Convulsion |
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| Sanguineous crust | | Scab |
| Scarlatina | | Scarlet fever |
| Shakes | | Delirium tremens |
| St. Vitas dance | | Ceaseless occurrence
of rapid involuntary jerking movements |
Extractions from the Arlington
Journal, by Will Keller
Friday May 25, 1928
Tolly Mackey Hiett, who formerly
lived in Arlington, died in a hospital in
Shamrock, Texas, after a brief illness, on the
morning of May 20. He, with his family, had
lived at Shamrock for the past two years, and
burial was from the First Baptist Church there
with Rev. J. Waddy officiating. A profusion
of beautiful flowers attested the loving
sympathy of many friends who gathered to
pay their last tribute to a neighbor.
Tolly was born in Gregg County,
Texas, near Longview, June 13, 1887, and,
with his parents, removed to Tarrant County,
where he grew up from childhood in the
Rehoboth community. He was converted to
Christianity at an early age, and united with
the Baptist Church at Rehoboth. He was
married in 1908 to Miss Ola Henderson of the
same community. Four children were born to
this union, three of whom, Thoman, Dick and
Dorothy, together with his wife, survive. The
eldest child died in infancy.
At one time he was associated with the
Oklahoma-Texas baseball league as well as
the Texas league as a professional player, and
while thus engaged formed a large
acquaintance over the state.
He was a kind and generous father, a
devoted husband and a loyal son, and the
benediction of his brotherly heart will be a
consoling memory to his family and friends.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Hiett, of Arlington, he is survived by eight
brothers and one sister. The brothers are John
A. of Dallas, Bob, George, and Oliver of
Wellington, Texas; Charles of Los Angeles
and Will G. of Arlington; and the sister, Mrs.
Ben Thomas, of Arlington.
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