Very cool - thank you Robert! I've played with nearly every surname in my tree - even my Schmitts. :o) I can see where my ancestors' descendants lived which is really neat. Do you know of anything earlier? Or plans to add another time period? On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Laura, > > Try www.geopatronyme.com > > This site tells you the distribution of surnames in France for four > periods over the past 120 years. The default is the earliest period > (1891-1915) and the results show you both a map and a list of > departments. The get the names of the towns just click on the name of > the department you are interested in (in the list, not on the map). > > Robert Behra > > -----Original Message----- > From: Laura <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 10:43 am > Subject: [A-L] Surnames in Moselle > > > In an earlier email, Dave wrote " The surname Abba is only listed in > Mosellein Walscheid and is not listed at all in Alsace for that time > period."I would like to know more about the list to which Dave >

Laura, I'm not aware of anything similar that covers earlier periods. One thing you can try is doing searches in Geneanet (www.geneanet.org). If you don't have an account you can still do searches and see initial results (in the category Online Family Trees), which will usually show you the time period, the name of the community and the department. You can't get any deeper unless you have an account. With the free account you can look at the results from individual files and get a contact e-mail address. All the rest of the content requires a paying membership. I suggest this site because it is based in Europe, so it has a more representative sampling from which to determine distribution of surnames in France than does the rough American equivalent, Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project (wc.rootsweb.com). Since you mention the name Schmitt, you may already be aware that the three most common surnames in Alsace are Schmitt, Meyer and Muller (all of which also have multiple variant spellings), while the most common surname in France as a whole is Martin. Robert -----Original Message----- From: Laura <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 8:24 am Subject: Re: [A-L] Surnames in Moselle Very cool - thank you Robert! I've played with nearly every surname in mytree - even my Schmitts. :o) I can see where my ancestors' descendants livedwhich is really neat. Do you know of anything earlier? Or plans to addanother time period?On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:>> Laura,>> Try www.geopatronyme.com>> This site tells you the distribution of surnames in France for four> periods over the past 120 years. The default is the earliest period> (1891-1915) and the results show you both a map and a list of> departments. The get the names of the towns just click on the name of> the department you are interested in (in the list, not on the map).>> Robert Behra>> -----Original Message-----> From: Laura <[email protected]>> To: [email protected]> Sent: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 10:43 am> Subject: [A-L] Surnames in Moselle>>> In an earlier email, Dave wrote " The surname Abba is only listed in> Mosellein Walscheid and is not listed at all in Alsace for that time> period."I would like to know more about the list to which Dave>-- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine- L.htm -------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message