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Looking for anyone with surname "Rumsey".?
Want to trace name back as far as possible and find as many relatives and branches as possible. James Rumsey invented the steamboat. Gary Rumsey was an artist. Would like to know of others. Please e-mail beesidedemeusa@yahoo.co.uk and use Subject: Rumsey. Thank you.
I want to correspond with someone having the surname "Rumsey" who has any information about the family name. Genealogical sites just run me in circles.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
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- Shirley TLv 71 decade ago
Ancestry.Com shows it is a habitational name from Romsey in Hampshire, so named from the genitive case of Old English personal name Rum (a short form of compound names with the first element Rum + old English eg island 'dry land in a fen'.
Rootsweb(free site) has over 21,000 entries for Rumsey. Just pull up the site and put Rumsey in the World Connect block. If you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.
Now don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid.
The information is user submitted and most is not documented. You will frequently see different information on the same person from different submitters. Then you will see repeatedly the same information from different submitters and no documentation.
A lot of people copy without verifying and there are errors in family trees on the internet.
Also, you have to consider not everyone with the same surname is related or share ancestors.
Have you tried putting "Rumsey" in your search engine and see what all you come up with?
