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Helen Rosenzweig and her grandchildren
 

Photo of the Week: Helen Rosenzweig and her grandchildren. Chicago (1903). Gallery of Winners

Connection of the Month: Bob DylanBob Dylan, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. Login to see how you're connected to him.

County Cork Project Collaboration of the Week: Sir Fineen "The Rover" O'Driscoll (abt. 1560-1629) from the County Cork Project. Join us here.

Last week: James H. Hall (1828-1885) from the Mexican-American War Project.

 
 

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Gail Cox "After three years on WikiTree, it is still amazing to me that I can find such a rich online experience with so many different options ... totally FREE. All that is asked of me is that I be responsible to our community with the information that I'm putting up." — Gail Cox

Top 25 family names yesterday, 20 Oct 2016:

  1. DE_WIT (220)
  2. MORGAN (93)
  3. MULZAC (93)
  4. WEDDINGTON (63)
  5. HALL (44)
  6. LOW (43)
  7. KIMBALL (43)
  8. PESTERFIELD (42)
  9. CHAMBERLAIN (41)
  10. HUDSON (39)
  11. BROWN (38)
  12. WHITE (36)
  13. WATSON (36)
  14. MACKEY (36)
  15. SMITH (34)
  16. WILSON (34)
  17. WARD (32)
  18. رئیس_سمیعی (31)
  19. CAMPBELL (27)
  20. PHILLIPS (27)
  21. WHIPPLE (27)
  22. JOUBERT (27)
  23. SUMMERS (27)
  24. SPANN (27)
  25. THOMAS (26)

See our top contributors and surnames for last month.

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