This Surname came from my Grandfather who was American Indian. I am trying to find out a little more family hostory but dont want to have to spend money to do it.
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freesurnamesearch.com\npretty decent site.
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try a geneology site-not Yahoo.
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try reunion.com there are a lot of names registered there good luck
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I am very into geneology.  If you contact me via my profile, I can do some looking for you (just thought I would offer).\n\nBut to answer your question, contact the court house, public records, and ask them the information that you are looking for.  Most that I have dealt with are more than willing to help you.  You will have to pay for some of the research (which is why I offered to help you with some things - I don't charge), and to get copies of records.\n\nLike I said, contact me with the information you are looking for and I will see what I can find for you.\n\n** Additional Information **\n\nJudith Chastain Ballew\nBorn: 1690, Canton, Bern, Switzerland, Switzerland*\nMarried: 1730, Goochland, VA \nDied: 1735, Goochland, VA\n\n(* Some records have her being born in France or on the voyage to the US.)\n\nHusband isn't known and there are no children listed for her.  I did find her parents name and paternal grandparents information.  Detailed information is going to be hard to come by in the US - you may have to contact people in Switzerland.\n\nIf you need more, let me know.
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That's a good question, and seeing as how I'm related to alot of families (like most people really, they just don't know it), now you have me wanting to know.  But right now I don't. Even though I have a recently deceased grandmother who loved to follow the family tree's roots REALLY far. \nP.S. Thanks for getting me on a 'google' tangent again. Sigh.
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I've been researching for 3 years (i live in Maryland/ Delaware mason-dixon line area) and use ancestry.com, too. but to be honest, i found a lot of misinformation there...try rootsweb.com......it has a lot, at least it did for me and it's FREE. i paid $200 for ancestry. i found it was just a good place to start, but lots of bad "info" that can be confusing to starters, though it does have great census and newspaper collections.\nmy best advice is to enter the address for your research areas (county, state, etc.) in google and follow it from there...u will find libraries and so much more, even Archives with family records. i found out that my family were early settlers from England in the First state, Delaware, and had tons of my family's records, Bibles, etc. in the state and national archives. \nHappy Hunting! It's amazing what you'll find once you get going!
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http://www.familysearch.org\nhttp://www.accessgenealogy.com/\n\nCyndi's List has a bunch too:\nhttp://www.cyndislist.com/\n\nIt's a hard thing to do but possible. It took me 2 years online and all I had to start with was my grandmother's name and her parents, I got all the way back to 1535!
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ancestry.com will accommodate you to a certain point and then will ask you if you want to subscribe. the information you get at first is basic at best, but , it seems as though that is what you're looking for. this web site is good because  it presents many different angles to get information. good luck
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a couple of sites are www.rootsweb.com and www.familysearch.org . They are free, and a good place to start. Happy Hunting!
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Look in Yahoo or Alta Vista.com areas in the search engine part. Also, if that doesn't help go to a book store or lubrary and look at a baby name book.
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go to family history.com
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The best sight on the web for this is http://www.familysearch.org/ which is run by the church of the latter day saints.  It's free, and probably one of the most comprehensive archieves bar none.  There's also Cyndi's List (www.cyndislist.com) which hold tons of free and paid sites you can check.  Don't forget message boards, I struck gold after 3 years of searching in one night by meeting a second cousin.  I didn't know she exsisted.  Through her I managed to trace my father's side back to 1599!  Best of luck with your searches.  There's nothing like geneaology for a hobby!:)
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One of the best places to get started is Cyndi's List of Geneaology Sites. You say you can afford more sites so try ancestry.com. They have a huge repository of data but it costs about $80 per year to subscribe.
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I just looked in the new age baby name book and the very best baby name book and neither were in there(both books have many nationalities).  The name was apparently created for some reason.  It probably isn't race specific.  The closest is Romi/Romy which is French and English
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This is a link that I am very sure will help you, it has too much to copy and paste for you....\n\nIt is a site that deals with given names:\n http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/givennames.html
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If you want to go the way of genealogy then you would trace back through the Dawes rolls or The list of Native americans that were forced to move from their home lands to Ks. and Oklahoma.\nOr you could contact the Native American geneology Society in The Carolinas( North and South Carolina)
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do a title search.\nit is worth paying the title company to do this.\ndoing yourself is difficult.\nif the county has public access to recordslook up the current owner. the document will show a recording date and a cross reference #. trace theat # and it will tell you the seller.look up that seller in general ref if you  have to but usually the recording # will tell you what you need to know. keep doing this until you get to the time period you want..\nwhen the owners name you want appears, then you have to do a geneological trace to0 find family who may or may not have pictures, and may or may not share them with you.\nstewart and american are both natiowide as i remember\nwhen you call them area code 555 1212 for info, ask for customer service.