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Noted Relations: Guide
Common SourcesRecent changes and additions |
Heros and rogues, saints and sinners – the 1585 historic personages listed on these pages are all related to me.
The people are listed on separate index pages by the first
letter of their name, all in the format shown here.
Persons from particularly well-represented families may also be indexed
on a separate family page. These family pages will appear in the main index pages
highlighted in yellow.
type
name
[dates]
–
description
(ref#)
n
[picture]
-
- Items so marked have recent changes
(as of 2008-04-25).
See the list below for a summary.
-
- Indicates the target page has bookmarks (links to web pages beyond this site).
- type
- A mark indicating the type of index entry:
=ancestor (163)
=cousin (1292)
=cousin by marriage (or an adoptee) (130)
+ =family group (224)
= =cross reference (-1809)
- name
- The person's name, and a link to a separate page devoted exclusively to that person, if such exists. Alternatively, in lieu of a separate page of their own, some individuals may have a short paragraph following this identification line.
- dates
- The date of birth and death for the person. An asterisk (*) is used to mark a birth date for living persons.
- description
- A cursory description of the person.
- ref#
- The person's unique reference number, and also a link to that person on the family ODT page on my Genealogy, et Cetera site. There, you will find how s/he fits into the rest of the family.
- n
- A running count of individuals
- picture
- If an image exists for the individual, a thumbnail of it may be selected to appear to the right of the text area. A larger copy of the picture will be on the person's individual page. These thumbnails are randomly selected for display here.
On letter index pages,
there will be a sidebar (headed Families:)in the NorthEast corner listing all the
family index pages in this letter index, with links to those places.
The people
Click on a letter to display an index page of celebrities with surnames beginning with that letter.
Common Sources
These are some common sources that I have used throughout these celebrity pages.
| Key | Citation |
|---|---|
| AFN | ROBB, H. Amanda & CHESLER, Andrew; Encyclopedia of American Family Names; (New York: HarperCollins, ©1995) ISBN: 0-06-270075-8 |
| ARC | AllRefer.com; Reference information from database of articles and reference materials. |
| APPLE | WILSON, James Grant and FISKE, John (eds.); Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; (Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889) Contains known fictitious entries! http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/cyclopedia.html |
| BDAC |
Biographical Directory of the American Congress;
(Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1950)
•The current directory: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1774 - Present) |
| BDNA | JOHNSON, Rossiter, ed.; Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans; (Volumes I-X. Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904) |
| BRC | Biography Resource Center; |
| DAB | American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936; Dictionary of American Biography; (Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005) |
| HARPER | DUPUY, Trevor N., et al.; The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography; (New York: Castle books, 1995) ISBN: 0-7858-0437-4 |
| HE | HERRINGSHAW, Thomas William; Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century; (Chicago, IL: American Publishers' Association, 1902) |
| IMDB | Internet Movie Database; |
| MWBD | Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary; (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1995) ISBN: 0-87779-743-9 |
| NCCN | BARNHART, Clarence L.; New Century Cyclopedia of Names; (New York, 1954) |
| WHO | Who's Who in America; (Vol.27 1952-1953, Chicago: The A.N. Marquis Co., ©1952) |
| WIKI | Wikipedia; The free online encyclopedia |
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