The SOUTH SURNAME Home Page
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UPDATE: Have added several WWW linkages that people have sent in. Thanks for all the info from everyone!
The is a resource guide for SOUTH Family Genealogy researchers. I started doing some research on family names in the summer of '95 while we were trying to come up with a name for our third addition to the family (we named her Anna Grace South). I got very interested in the "detective like" work involved to find my ancestors and have been hooked since then!
I am not a professional genealogist by any means, but I have come across a fair amount of materials that contains the SOUTH surname during my research. Not all directly tie to my line, but maybe this information will be helpful to someone.
note: from a selfish point, I hope that another South researcher will use this opportunity to contact me with other materials that they have found useful in their research that I can add to this page...
A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS:
- Other Researchers listed in the search Rand catalog
- Roots web search
- Genealogy.com Site
- SOUTH Coat of Arms & History
- Some of the first South's in America
- Books I've Found that are on the SOUTH name
- Libraries with good genealogical information
- Web Resources that have SOUTH information
Please contact me (Chris South) with other
resources you'd like added: [email protected]
Books on SOUTH Surname
1. Genealogical Notes on the South Family from the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Texas by Christine South Gee 1963
This book contains a significant amount of
research that Christine did over 20 years. I like it because it contains early
history of the SOUTH family in
2. Sand of Time Genealogy and Traditions of the SOUTH family MILFORD-MILFORD Family and other Allied Families by Charles Patrick Milford 1976
This book contains a uses Christine's book as
a basis, referencing some of the same materials. Pat goes into more detail of
his family Virginia,
3. The World Book of South by Halbert's Family Heritage 1994
This book almost no useful material on the family. The good thing it is good for is the directory of SOUTH's listed (5200 in the US and 2700 in Britain).
4. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volume 7
This series of books has many families of PA and is a good reference. I found a copy at the Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon Library. There is a chapter on the South line (William South is the first) that started in settled in Newtown, Bucks County, PA from England in 1765. There is a paragraph on the basis of the South's in England.
WEB Resources with SOUTH Information
- http://www.kentuckyroots.org/
Library Resources
1. Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon Library
This library has a wealth of information on Western Pennsylvania. Some of the best material are county historical sketches that refers to the area background and important families. I found several references to Pennsylvania SOUTH's is these types books. It also has a good set of obituary indices for Pittsburgh papers, as well as the papers on microfilm. I found that I could have spent days going through the volumes of information that exists there.
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