Have been a few days away from reading the recent mailings to this list ! Am following, with interest, the discussions on the "dit" names. Fortunately, ( or unfortunately ), depending upon your persuasion, I have no "dit" names in my Ancestry, BUT .... have a litany of Smiths, Jones, and Browns, to cope with :-) Do I assume, correctly, that "dit" can be translated as ' KNOWN AS ' ......... TO SIGNIFY SO-AND-SO, separately from others of the same given surname . I don`t believe that English Monikers, made it into official records, but it might have helped some. Might have been easier to trace the movements of STINKY SMITH , than simple old Bill Smith :-) Keep up the `Good WORKS` , Folks .......... this is an interesting site, Paul Robins