Bill in Nanaimo asked about a website somewhere that you can access, type in your family name and see where, in the UK, were the concentrations of such families. This site shows UK concentrations based on fairly recent data http://surname.sofeminine.co.uk/w/surnames/ If you have access to Ancestry then this link will take you to a page which lets you see a surname distribution based on the 1891 census. http://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts/default.aspx# Then this link takes you to a site which lets you analyse the 1881 census by Surname, by county and even Parish. http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/1881census/ Happy hunting, Duncan, Dundee