On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 1:42:49 PM UTC-7, James LaLone via wrote: > At the genie meeting last night someone asked me if Danish surnames ending > in BORG are an indication of royalty. I have no idea, can anyone inform > me? Her name is SPRINGBORG. thanks. I don't think so. 'Borg' just means 'castle' (equivalent to '-burg' in German) and would be found in many place names. While such a surname may have been borne by someone who owned the land with this name (i.e. gentry, nobility) it might just as well have been borne by someone who just lived there. Until recently (late 19th and early 20th century), most of the population didn't even use surnames - they would be identified by their name, their father's name and where they were from, so that a Jens Christensen Springborg would simply be Jens from Springborg, son of Christian, and if he moved to another town, his son may have been Bjorn Jensen Lindholm. taf