Hi Jim Had a quick look at the website you recommended. Members may be interested that there is a downloadable PDF of a research paper and article "Surnames and Social Mobility in England 1170-2012", by the authors Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins http://tinyurl.com/o2m9ay2 Rennison Rennison's List on http://www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk/rennisons.htm The Vayro Ancestry on http://www.vayro.name Vayro Database on http://vayro.tribalpages.com Vayro Guild of One-Name Studies Profile http://one-name.org/name_profile/vayro/ http://www.rennisonprimarydesigntechnology.info Searching for VAYRO, VARO, VARAH and variations worldwide On Sunday, 30 November 2014, 12:20, Jim Benedict via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > >For those not following the Guild on Google+, you may have missed this >interesting posting on relating surnames to social standing over the >centuries. The intro says: > >"If your surname reveals that you descended from the 'in' crowd in the >England of 1066-the Norman Conquerors-then even now you are more likely than >the average Brit to be upper class." > >The article is titled, "How England's 1% remained the same since 1066 " and >can be found at: > >http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/26/englands-1-remained-since-1066/ > >My interest is the many ways to look at surname studies. There are members >within the Guild who are skilled at analysing a one-name as a study, and >this article illustrates one more surprising revelation. > > >Jim Benedict >Guild Representative for Western Canada >Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 Calgary, Alberta >www.BenedictGenerations.com >======================================================== > > > >_____________________________________________ > >RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >