Welcome to the Slaven Genealogy Exchange.

Welcome to the Slaven Genealogy Exchange! Our purpose is to be a central location to collect and exchange information for Slaven, Slevin, Slavin, Slavey, and other surname variations. As a registered one-name study, the scope of this exchange is world wide. We hope there's something here for the beginning genealogist, the old hand, and the merely curious!

What's new?!

Sorry that I haven't been able to make all the additions that I had planned once I finished my course in mid-November, but my mother's health started to rapidly decline the week of Thanksgiving, and she passed away December 12. I'm afraid that there won't be much activity on the site for the next month or more.

On our bookshelf page, we've added information about a family/history book on a Slaven family that has lived in the Barrhead/Nitshill area in western Scotland for nearly 200 years. Also on a booklet containing the reminiscences of one of the Mitchell's (aka Andrews') Raiders-- while it doesn't mention Samuel Slavens, "great locomotive chase" fans will find it quite interesting.

We've added a page of bounty land warrants awarded to Revolutionary through Mexican War veterans. I sent to the National Archives for one of the bounty land applications, and we've extracted information from it concerning John Slavens, a veteran of the War of 1812 from Smith County, Tennessee, and later of Illinois. (Some great info for Slavens researchers here!) Some new obituaries and news items have been added.

A new section has been added to the website, dealing with Australian heavyweight boxer Frank Slavin. All 16 chapters of Frank's life story from an Australian newspaper in 1926 have been posted, along with some information on Frank's Irish heritage.

FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) has started the process of merging people who had tested with DNA Heritage (DNAH) into surname projects at FTDNA. I encourage the members of the Slaven project that tested there to take advantage of this service. It's free, and it's my understanding that they are offering a discount on their 25 to 37 marker upgrade service to the DNAH participants that transfer in. Contact me with any questions about the merger process.

About this site

This is a private, noncommercial educational site for the free exchange of information. It is not associated with Ancestry.com, Rootsweb, MyFamily, or any commercial site. (That means no banner ads, no pop-up or pop-under windows, no unsolicited email!)

All content on this site is believed to be compliant with U.S. copyright law and Fair Use provisions.

Because the site is an outgrowth of my personal research, it's tilted towards the Slavens surname. But that's easily fixed-- contribute your Slavin, Slevin, etc. data for the site! Here are some of the types of information that you can share:

Census transcriptions Census returns can be a gold mine of information for both the beginning and the experienced researcher, but many people don't have easy access to films. Finding your family in a transcription here makes requesting a film or a lookup much more worthwhile, so won't you share? We need people who have access to their state's Soundex indexes and are willing to transcribe the Slaven(s), Slavin, Slevin, etc. entries! It's S415 and you'll see about 20 Sullivans for each Slaven.

Biographies and reminiscences Share the bios from county history books, reminiscences from ancestors, old family letters, your own memories, the family history that was written for a reunion decades ago...

Obituaries Transcriptions of obituaries and death notices.

Photographs Share family photos, or photos of grave sites. Photos continue to be the most popular items on the site.

Links Do you have or know of a family-related site? Does a GenWeb county site offer information on a branch of the family? Share it here!

Other help! Other information that doesn't fit the categories above is also welcome.

All corrections, suggestions, criticisms, etc. are welcome too! Be sure to put Slaven, Slavin, and something meaningful in the subject line-- I get tons of spam so an email with no subject or "Hi!" will probably be deleted unread!

Larry Slavens
7018 Airline Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50322

iarooster@earthlink.net

About me
I'm a software engineer for a company in the Des Moines suburbs. Besides genealogy, I'm also involved with collie rescue and am working on completing my degree though guided independent study at the University of Iowa. I'd love to spend much more time working on this website but until retirement in 15 years or a lottery jackpot win, it's going to have to remain a hobby.

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