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Roots Surname List or RSL
Contents
What is the RSL?
How to Obtain the Entire RSL
How to Obtain the Part of the RSL You Want
How to Submit Data for Inclusion in the RSL
I. WHAT IS THE RSL AND HOW IS IT USED?
The Roots Surname List (RSL) is a list of surnames (over 110,000 in August
1996, submitted by over 7,500 net.genealogists) with associated dates and
locations. Its purpose is to enable genealogical researchers to locate
others interested in sharing and comparing data about the same families.
Genealogists, preferably with Internet access, are welcome to submit the
surnames that they are researching for inclusion in the RSL if they are
willing to share (within reason, of course!) their data with others who may
be doing parallel research. Enough identifying information about dates and
locations should be provided so that others can decide whether a link with
their own lines is possible or probable. There is no charge to participate,
although RootsWeb, a major sponsor of this effort, does accept voluntary
contributions. If you find the RSL useful and would like to support it
financially, visit http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html
for information.
Directions on how to submit data are included in Section IV. Alternatively,
there is now a new form on line at
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslform.html
If you see a surname listed that interests you, especially if there is a
good match on dates and locations, contact the person who submitted the
surname. Unless the submitter happened to be me, I can't be of much help.
To find out how to contact the submitter, just look up their nametag
(listed at the end of each surname entry) in the list of submitters. There
are different ways to do this. One may order individual addresses from the
mailserver at genealogy.org, as described in Section III. Or if one is
accessing the RSL via the interactive search, simply select the nametag
displayed with a line of surname information to display the contact
information for the submitter. Please see the discussion in Section IV for
the meanings of the various data fields.
The update to the RSL, consisting of the new and updated surnames, is
posted to rsl-update (an Internet genealogy mailing list -- to subscribe,
just send the message "subscribe" (without the quotation marks) to
rsl-update-request@rootsweb.com) and to soc.genealogy.surnames (the USENET
genealogy newsgroup devoted to surnames) and alt.genealogy (a general
purpose genealogy newsgroup) on the first Sunday of the month. The database
used by the interactive search that resides on RootsWeb
(http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/) and on the RAND Genealogy
Club's WWW page at http://www.rand.org/cgi-bin/Genea/rslsearch.pl is
updated a few days later. Included in the posted update is contact
information for the submitters of the new and updated info.
Section III describes how to check the RSL for your surnames of interest.
Section IV explains how to submit your data for inclusion.
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