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I found the following announcement on Dick Eastman's site today. Here is the breaking news from the Southern California Genealogical Society:

Write Your Family Names on Our Virtual Surname Wall

You are invited to add your family surnames to the Southern California Genealogical Society's Virtual Surname Wall. This feature will be unveiled at the 38th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, June 8-10 in Burbank, CA.

There is no charge for this service, and the offer is open to the public. We encourage you to forward this invitation to your cousins, genealogy-related email lists, society members, your genealogy acquaintances, or other family historians. Entries submitted by May 22 will be included in the 2007 Virtual Surname Wall at Jamboree; however, we will continue to accept information after that date. later submissions will be included in a free-access online database that will be launched this summer.

Although this project is being sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society, we welcome family information from any geographic area, not just California. You may submit up to 10 surnames. We plan to allow for more surnames to be added and will let you know when we are able to accept more names.

Participants will be asked for the following information. You may wish to have your family group sheets, pedigree charts, or genealogy database available for reference.

1. Your family surnames (including spelling variations).
2. The geographic area in which they lived, or the migration path.
3. The associated period of time.

Your participation in the Virtual Surname Wall project is completely voluntary. Surname Wall information will be maintained by SCGS and may be included in printed or a searchable free online database that would be accessible on the SCGS website at www.scgsgenealogy.com. Your participation in the project is your authorization to include your surname information in any printed or searchable online databases that may be developed.

Of course, we have instituted steps to protect your privacy. Your contact information will not be displayed, either in print or online. You will have the option of asking SCGS to serve as intermediary, or authorizing SCGS to release your contact information should we receive an inquiry regarding a possible family connection.

If you have questions at any time about the Virtual Surname Wall, please contact us at jamboree@scgsgenealogy.com. If you are attending Jamboree, be sure to stop by the Tech Zone to check out this new resource.

Click here for more information on Southern California's Genealogy Jamboree.

Click here to add your names to our Virtural Surname Wall.

Download the flyer here.

I love having my information online for relatives to find me so I just added 10 surnames to the Virtual Surname Wall. It was hard to pick just 10, but the winners were:

Abbott
Bickel/Bickle
Farrar
French
Hersam/Hersom
Horne/Horn
MacAusland/McAuslane
Mullins
Sherrill
Wilson