Worldwide TUREK Database
The following linkage http://www.turkgenealogy.comhttp://www.turkgenealogy.com will take you to a TUREK family database that currently has 11,111 entries. This is a Guild of One-Name Studies site. Included at this site is an historical study of the origins of this surname. The bulk of the above database is continental Europe. We would like to expand this to cover the British Isles, North America, etc. All are encouraged to send their TUREK family records, i.e. all children born to any couple where at least one of the parents carry this surname with linked TUREK generations. There are over 250 identified variations of this surname. Because of the enormity of the task of opening up whole new continents it is requested that submissions be by GEDCOM. Those lacking this technology can download a free program with this feature from http://www.familysearch.orghttp://www.familysearch.org.