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    1. Incidence of surnames
    2. Loraine

    3. Some while ago on this list, someone published a link to a university web site (a welsh one I think) which had done a project on the incidence of surnames in Britain. As I have a few unusual surnames in my tree I found this useful, but a new computer and failure to transfer everything means I have lost the link. Is there anyone out there who can send it to me please? Thanks. Happy new year everyone

    01/02/2006 07:01:52
    1. RE: Incidence of surnames
    2. Nick Carver

    3. It was on the Office of National Statistics website - sorry, can't remember the precise URL -----Original Message----- From: Loraine [mailto:Lol_barnes@lineone.net] Sent: 02 January 2006 14:02 To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Incidence of surnames Some while ago on this list, someone published a link to a university web site (a welsh one I think) which had done a project on the incidence of surnames in Britain. As I have a few unusual surnames in my tree I found this useful, but a new computer and failure to transfer everything means I have lost the link. Is there anyone out there who can send it to me please? Thanks. Happy new year everyone ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== Want to help FreeBMD? Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

    01/02/2006 08:52:47
    1. Re: Incidence of surnames
    2. Richard Oliver

    3. Hi Loraine: Luckily I kept the item regarding the incidence of surnames: it appeared on the "FREEBMD-DISCUSS" list in October 2004, sent in by Peter Norman, and read as follows: "A useful free site, which gives the current frequency of any surname in England & Wales is the based on ONS' database http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php Just enter the name and it tells you both current ranking and number of occurrences. The 10 most common are Surname Count Ranking SMITH 652563 1 JONES 538874 2 WILLIAMS 380379 3 TAYLOR 306296 4 BROWN 291872 5 DAVIES 279647 6 EVANS 222580 7 THOMAS 202773 8 WILSON 201224 9 JOHNSON 193260 10 Peter Norman" ______________________________

    01/02/2006 10:55:18