Procedure for Picking Names

Although this is not a purely random process, I will attempt to be systematic from week to week. This is how I did it with Alabama but Alaska was challenging, so I'll alter the process for each state based on population.

1. I will start with Alabama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Alabama) and pick a new state (the next state in an alphabetical list) each week.
   
2. I will pick a random letter of the alphabet between 1 and 26 (using the random number generator at http://www.random.org/nform.html) and go to that section in the list of towns. For Alabama, as an example, I randomly picked 10. I went to the section of the page for that letter of the alphabet at wikipedia's list of towns (J = 10).
3. I will count the towns in that section of the listing and pick another random number between 1 and the number of towns. For Alabama, there were 7 "J" towns and I randomly picked "2": Jackson, Alabama.
4. Next I will go to switchboard.com. I will pick another random number from 1 - 26. For Alabama, I got 26, so "Z." I will place the letter in the last name field and the town I picked in the city/state fields. There were 2 results for Jackson, Alabama.
5. Next I will pick another random number between 1 and the number of names returned. For Jackson, Alabama, I got 2 results and I picked 2, so I will choose the second name in the list of returned names for Jackson, Alabama.

Alphabetical list of states

A1
B2
C3
D4
E5
F6
G7
H8
I9
J10
K11
L12
M13
N14
O15
P16
Q17
R18
S19
T20
U21
V22
W23
X24
Y25
Z26