Languagehat points out this National Trust surname finder. Enter your family name and see where in Britain they were concentrated in 1881 and 1998. It's fun to watch my mother's family name spread north from Galloway while my father's moves east and south from the Outer Hebrides until they meet ... where they met. Douglas
Post a comment
Your Information
(Name and email address are required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)
Thanks for the National Trust link! My wife has been trying to track the English side of her family's roots, and this may help her.
Neil
Posted by: Neil | 01 June 2008 at 05:06 PM
Hey Neil -- it'd be handy if there was a similar sort of tool for Canada. Though what would be handier would be a tool that sorted out all the relatives with the same given and family names.
I was messing around with my genealogy stuff today and found another example of a sister seeming to marry her brother only to have it turn out to be some sort of cousins marrying. Like thousands of other families, they tended to use only three or four given names for sons in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Heather
Posted by: Heather | 01 June 2008 at 09:46 PM