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Surname Definition: See Family Crest below.

Origins: Somerset, England.

Alternate Spellings: MEAD, MEADE, MEADS, MEADES, and others.

Surnames sharing the Rootsweb Soundex Code: MATEU, MATHEW, MATHIEU, MATOY, MATTHEW, MEAD, MEADE, MOAD, MOODIE, MOODY, MOTE, MOTT, MOUDY, MOWAT, MUDD, MUTH, MYATT.

Other Resources

• Family Crest
• MEAD Family Genealogy Forum - Also see Meador, Meadors, Meadows, Meade, Meads
• RootsWeb's World Connect Project
• Rootsweb Messageboards
• USA Death Records
• TribalPages
• GeneaNet
• GenCircles
• GenesReunited $
• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
• Answers.com – The world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia – click on ‘words’ and ‘Tell me about’ your surname
• Search Wikipedia – the free encyclopaedia
• DeadFred – Genealogy photo archive
• AncientFaces – Family Treasures
• Linkpendium
• FamilyTreeDNA
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• RootsChat – Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more
• CertificateSharing – free sharing of Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death Certificates in English language only
• Access Genealogy’s Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania search engine
• The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
• Search Family Home Pages at FamilyTreeMaker
• Search Encyclopaedia Titanica – Titanic Passenger and Crew Research

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