Researching Franklin Sanborn
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The name Franklin means "Free Man" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Franklin Sanborn on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Franklin Sanborn and the Sanborn Genealogy
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Sanborn Family Tree Databases
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Miscellaneous Sanborn Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Franklin Sanborn. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Franklin Sanborn
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831 – February 24, 1917) was an American journalist, teacher, author, reformer, and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures. He founded the American Social Science Association, in 1865, "to treat wisely the great social problems of the day". He was a member of the so-called Secret Six, or "Committee of Six", which funded or helped obtain funding for John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry; in fact he introduced Brown to the others.
Source: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Sanborn
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