I expect it could have been done using any of the census versions but I currently dont have a subscription to any. As I have been doing family history for about 28 years I only take out a month subscription out Ancestry occasionally when I have built up a large enough list. Chris Jefferies Cheltenham Glos -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike Fisher Sent: 03 December 2010 21:15 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Re Surname Profiler Hi If you have access to Ancestry surely you can do it for all their transcribed censuses, just put in the surname and the county you want in the exact old search. (you have to take into account their transcription accuracy may affect the results) Mike in Droitwich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Re Surname Profiler On 3 Dec 2010 at 11:54, Chris Jefferies wrote: > After all that waiting for the Profiler to return I find that it won't > now do what I want! All I wanted to know was how occurrence of the > surname LOVELL in Somerset compared with that in Gloucestershire. I am > sure that last time I looked the info was displayed by county instead > of by postcode. > > I used Family Search instead which told me that in 1881 there were 555 > LOVELL living in Gloucestershire and 575 living in Somerset. Those in > Somerset seemed well spread out over the county but in Gloucestershire > the name was concentrated in the Bristol area. > Your search would have been resolved in probably under a couple of minutes had you owned a copy of Steve Archer's British Surname Atlas CD - quite the best bargain in genealogy at only £12, in my opinion. This takes all the data from the 1881 census and draws instant distribution maps showing where any one of thousands of surnames is most concentrated. The results table is shown by counties, Poor Law Unions (registration districts) and in terms of occurrences per 100,000 head of population. Variants can be included or a simple search for just one version can be done. The maps print out beautifully and the statistical results can be incorporated into databases. Some slight divergence from your own results is to be expected, but basically the results with Surname Atlas are very similar. This shows a total of 559 LOVELLs in Somerset and 550 in Gloucestershire. The top county for LOVELL was Middlesex with 978 actually occurrences. However, when looked at it terms of density, i.e. per 100,000, the principal centre of the surname in 1881 was Northamptonshire with 163 occurrences per 100,000. When the same calculation is applied in terms of Poor Law Unions, then the surname LOVELL is at easily its highest concentration in Keynsham - 685 occurrences per 100,000 - which would seem to bear out your own discoveries. The highest actual number of occurrences was at Barton Regis with 303. However, I cannot help wondering how long it took you to arrive at your results using FamilySearch and other sources when the results could have been achieved with Surname Atlas in just a few minutes? -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message