Back in 1996, I found out about some then-new internet tools to search for people, like electronic phone books. There are now many companies online that do this, including variations like yellow pages, reverse lookups, etc. I first used Yahoo's search, which later merged with a company called Four11. Yahoo's internet address is at "http://people.yahoo.com/". I then found another searcher called Magellan, which has since become Infospace (at "http://www.infospace.com/"), which also included searching in Canada. It also seemed to do a somewhat better job at finding people (i.e., more names).
The searchers allow you to enter any combination of search information (first/last name, city, and/or state) and "search" an electronic phone book. You can search for people based on any or all of: first name, last name, city, state, etc. Thus, you can search for "Truax" in "MN" (Minnesota) and find out there's 118 (or 122) listings.
The searchers usually give you the names, addresses, and phone numbers of ten listings at a time, and tell you how many there are if there are over 10, up to a limit of 200. [It also works much better than paying to call a long distance information operator to find a particular phone number.] They can also be used to find e-mail addresses on the internet--there's over 50 "Truax" entries alone !! One such contact led me to the Association in 1996 !!!
I decided to try to find out "Where Are The DuTrieux Descendants?" of today. I spent a few hours using each searcher to check each of the 50 states (and Canada) for the names Truax, Truex, Trueax, Dutrieux, etc. The results are shown on the table below, with the numbers for each state's results from Yahoo and Magellan/Infospace compared. The "TOTAL" column adds the maximum of each name (e.g., Truax, Truex, etc.) search when adding. I also decided to compare the TOTAL numbers to the state's population, in order to give a relative "density" figure of how many Truax's, etc. there are. So I divided by the state's total population (in millions), giving a number per million population for comparison). These two columns are in boldface in the chart, as is the US and Canada totals.
I did this exercise for my own interest and enjoyment, and decided to share it with Association members through the newsletter. Recently, I decided to add it to this website. Plus, the story about the internet tools might help other members find distant relatives of today.
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Alabama |
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3 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
9 |
2.2 |
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4.1 |
Alaska |
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7 |
9 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
10 |
16.7 |
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0.6 |
Arizona |
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32 |
33 |
9 |
7 |
4 ** |
4 |
- |
2 |
48 |
13.0 |
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3.7 |
Arkansas |
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16 |
15 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
19 |
8.3 |
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2.3 |
California |
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146 |
151 |
51 |
57 |
6 |
6 |
- |
2 |
216 |
7.2 |
2 |
2 |
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Dutreaux |
29.8 |
Colorado |
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22 |
26 |
8 |
9 |
4 |
3 |
- |
- |
39 |
11.8 |
1 |
1 |
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Dutreix |
3.3 |
Connecticut |
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20 |
21 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
26 |
7.9 |
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3.3 |
Delaware |
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14 |
15 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
16 |
22.9 |
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0.7 |
Florida |
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86 |
88 |
35 |
39 |
3 |
3 |
- |
2 |
132 |
10.2 |
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2 |
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Dutreux |
13.0 |
Georgia |
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17 |
19 |
6 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
27 |
4.2 |
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6.5 |
Hawaii |
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2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
1.8 |
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1.1 |
Idaho |
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4 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
- |
10 |
10.0 |
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1.0 |
Illinois |
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53 |
61 |
9 |
9 |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
72 |
6.3 |
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11.5 |
Indiana |
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85 |
101 |
91 |
101 |
2 |
- |
- |
2 |
206 |
36.8 |
1 |
1 |
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5.6 |
Iowa |
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33 |
29 |
11 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
44 |
15.7 |
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2.8 |
Kansas |
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9 |
13 |
5 |
6 |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
21 |
8.4 |
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2.5 |
Kentucky |
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30 |
31 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
- |
1 |
40 |
10.8 |
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3.7 |
Louisiana |
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47 |
59 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
62 |
14.8 |
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Dutreix |
4.2 |
Maine |
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4 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5 |
4.2 |
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1.2 |
Maryland |
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31 |
32 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
33 |
6.9 |
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4.8 |
Massachusetts |
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27 |
27 |
5 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
34 |
5.7 |
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6.0 |
Michigan |
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136 |
140 |
13 |
13 |
1 |
1 |
- |
4 |
158 |
17.0 |
1 |
2 |
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9.3 |
Minnesota |
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118 |
122 |
3 |
7 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
129 |
29.3 |
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4.4 |
Mississippi |
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5 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
2.7 |
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2.6 |
Missouri |
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18 |
18 |
15 |
20 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
38 |
7.5 |
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5.1 |
Montana |
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11 |
13 |
3 |
2 |
12 |
9 |
- |
- |
28 |
35.0 |
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0.8 |
Nebraska |
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15 |
21 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
25 |
15.6 |
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1.6 |
Nevada |
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15 |
9 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
18 |
15.0 |
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1.2 |
New Hampshire |
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8 |
7 |
- |
- |
2 |
2 |
- |
1 |
11 |
10.0 |
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1.1 |
New Jersey |
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37 |
36 |
37 |
41 |
3 |
3 |
- |
1 |
82 |
10.6 |
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7.7 |
New Mexico |
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11 |
8 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
- |
1 |
16 |
10.7 |
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Dutreix |
1.5 |
New York |
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200 |
196 |
42 |
39 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
244 |
13.6 |
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18.0 |
North Carolina |
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20 |
18 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
27 |
4.0 |
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Dutreix, Dutreiex |
6.7 |
North Dakota |
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8 |
11 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
12 |
20.0 |
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0.6 |
Ohio |
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109 |
119 |
77 |
80 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
201 |
18.4 |
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10.9 |
Oklahoma |
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11 |
13 |
3 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
17 |
5.5 |
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Dutreau |
3.1 |
Oregon |
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53 |
52 |
8 |
9 |
22 |
24 |
- |
- |
86 |
29.7 |
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2.9 |
Pennsylvania |
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129 |
186 |
7 |
8 |
4 |
3 |
- |
4 |
202 |
17.0 |
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11.9 |
Rhode Island |
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3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5 |
5.0 |
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1.0 |
South Carolina |
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13 |
14 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
19 |
5.4 |
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3.5 |
South Dakota |
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12 |
12 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
15 |
21.4 |
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0.7 |
Tennessee |
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5 |
8 |
15 |
19 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
27 |
5.5 |
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4.9 |
Texas |
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73 |
94 |
32 |
35 |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
131 |
7.7 |
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Dutreix |
17.0 |
Utah |
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3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
4.1 |
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1.7 |
Vermont |
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14 |
15 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
20 |
33.3 |
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0.6 |
Virginia |
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10 |
15 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
24 |
3.9 |
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6.2 |
Washington |
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49 |
53 |
15 |
15 |
2 |
2 |
- |
2 |
72 |
14.7 |
1 |
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4.9 |
West Virginia |
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26 |
33 |
19 |
23 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
56 |
31.1 |
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1.8 |
Wisconsin |
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54 |
58 |
4 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
66 |
13.5 |
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4.9 |
Wyoming |
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5 |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
9 |
18.0 |
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0.5 |
U.S. TOTAL |
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1859 |
2038 |
581 |
627 |
82 ** |
80 |
1 |
35 |
2823 |
11.3 |
6 |
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248.8 |
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** U.S. Note: Yahoo "Trueax" in AZ & Total includes 1 "Trueaux" |
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Alberta |
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- |
11 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
11 |
4.4 |
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2.5 |
British Columbia |
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- |
15 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
15 |
4.5 |
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3.3 |
Manitoba |
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- |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
7 |
6.4 |
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1.1 |
New Brunswick |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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0.7 |
Newfoundland |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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0.6 |
N.W.Territory |
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- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
20.0 |
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0.1 |
Nova Scotia |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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0.9 |
Ontario |
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- |
120 |
- |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
123 |
12.2 |
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10.1 |
Prince Edward Is. |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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0.1 |
Quebec |
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- |
20 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
20 |
2.9 |
1 |
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6.9 |
Saskatchewan |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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1.0 |
Yukon Territory |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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0.0 |
CANADA TOTAL |
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173 |
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3 |
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1 |
177 |
6.5 |
1 |
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27.3 |
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