Strange I was not there and I am on the electoral roll and in the phone book, looking at the number of variants, it looks like another surname site I have looked at, don't ask me which one, but the list of variants is just about identical. I featured those variants in a recent newsletter. I also noticed more than a few repeats even a Rev Featherstone and the contact number was netflix.com which may give a clue to where some of the names came from. Paul 2627 Featherstone's Worldwide. On 12/12/2014 04:26, Jim Benedict via wrote: > Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the world? > Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want to plow > through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living individuals? > Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, > Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the search > website for you. > > Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: http://www.locatefamily.com/ > > It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal code, > including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This was the > Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once you find > it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map link. > > It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. This seems > to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar > searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do you get > only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can locate your > wayward spouse. > > The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries starting > with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people starting > with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in the > lists. It is going to be a long, long night. > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > Roselawn Cemetery