Hello all If you are curious to know where in the world your surname or the surname you're researching exists, you may be interested in what Dick Eastman wrote about the "Locate My Name" in a recent newsletter: "Locate My Name is a web site that promises to help you find distribution of names across countries and regions. The site mainly focuses on surnames, because more people with the same surname in a place, means something: either those people are in the region since long ago and the name originates from there or nearby, or members of the same family for some reason relocated there. The Locate My Name website is mainly used for finding origins of names, curiosity, entertainment and genealogy research. "Data from many countries is available, including: Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and more...." Read more on Dick Eastman's blog at <https://tinyurl.com/y8ndq8cp> The Locate My Name website is at <http://www.locatemyname.com/> Ancestry has a similar feature at <https://tinyurl.com/y7sfmgde>, but I believe it only draws upon statistics from the 1891 census. Lynne

It proves to be true in the case of my McARDELL family. Everyone of that name in Minnesota has proven to be descendants of my gggrandparents in England. When I began wondering about what seemed to be 2 different families here and began researching the other family also I found that some of them appeared in my grandfather's phone books and journels with no explination as to who they were. Then I posted some picktures with both known and unknown people in them and got answers back from descendants of the other family, id'ing the unknowns as their families and sometimes themselves as children. When we got done we had 2 of my ggrandfather's brothers having emigrated here thru Canada, and the sons of one of his brother's first marriage, who were raised by their maternal grandparents also emigrating to Canada and also connecting with other descendents in England thru the birth family of two girls adopted into the family here. It was quite the journey, alot of fun, alot of interesting people, alot of documentation exchanged back and forth and a tree that exploded to 10X the size it had been originally. Annie in Minnesota. -----Original Message----- From: Lynne <lklein@mindspring.com> To: LANCSGEN <LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2018 6:25 pm Subject: [LAN] Surname distribution Hello all If you are curious to know where in the world your surname or the surname you're researching exists, you may be interested in what Dick Eastman wrote about the "Locate My Name" in a recent newsletter: "Locate My Name is a web site that promises to help you find distribution of names across countries and regions. The site mainly focuses on surnames, because more people with the same surname in a place, means something: either those people are in the region since long ago and the name originates from there or nearby, or members of the same family for some reason relocated there. The Locate My Name website is mainly used for finding origins of names, curiosity, entertainment and genealogy research. "Data from many countries is available, including: Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and more...." Read more on Dick Eastman's blog at <https://tinyurl.com/y8ndq8cp> The Locate My Name website is at <http://www.locatemyname.com/> Ancestry has a similar feature at <https://tinyurl.com/y7sfmgde>, but I believe it only draws upon statistics from the 1891 census. Lynne _______________________________________________ :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: GENUKI - a virtual reference library of genealogical information. http://www.genuki.org.uk/ Contact the list administrator at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/lancsgen Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

It's interesting but seems to usually just tell you that most of that surname were in the large conurbation which is hardly surprising! They should really weight the figure for the population of the area they are measuring. It does pick up that there are quite a number with my surname in Wolverhampton which I have often noticed when searching censuses etc. but there should be numbers showing in Cumberland, I think this is missed because of the lower population in a rural area. As I always suspected, there are proportionally more with the name in the US - when you look on message boards, most claimed to be descended from one who went across in one of the early ships. Rare to see any claiming descent from poor 19th Century Ag Labs or Cotton Piecers but that is often the case in the US! I have a friend with an unusual Polish name, surprising that still only a handful in the US and much high number in the UK - I wonder that is more to do with the large number of Polish immigrants in recent years than ones that stayed after WWII like his father? My grandmother was a Pounder, it shows the expected concentration in the North East of England. None left of my line in the Bolton area but there has always been a pocket of them in Burnley which still shows though we have never found a link to them (wish some of them would appear on DNA!). Martin Briscoe Fort William Ancestry DNA, FTDNA (B68554), GEDMatch (A374507) -----Original Message----- From: Lynne [mailto:lklein@mindspring.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 12:24 AM To: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAN] Surname distribution Hello all If you are curious to know where in the world your surname or the surname you're researching exists, you may be interested in what Dick Eastman wrote about the "Locate My Name" in a recent newsletter:

Very interesting- but I was rejected! Richard Burfitt Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Jul 2018, at 10:17, Martin Briscoe (W10 laptop) <list@mbriscoe.me.uk> wrote: > > It's interesting but seems to usually just tell you that most of that > surname were in the large conurbation which is hardly surprising! They > should really weight the figure for the population of the area they are > measuring. It does pick up that there are quite a number with my surname in > Wolverhampton which I have often noticed when searching censuses etc. but > there should be numbers showing in Cumberland, I think this is missed > because of the lower population in a rural area. > > As I always suspected, there are proportionally more with the name in the US > - when you look on message boards, most claimed to be descended from one who > went across in one of the early ships. Rare to see any claiming descent from > poor 19th Century Ag Labs or Cotton Piecers but that is often the case in > the US! > > I have a friend with an unusual Polish name, surprising that still only a > handful in the US and much high number in the UK - I wonder that is more to > do with the large number of Polish immigrants in recent years than ones that > stayed after WWII like his father? > > My grandmother was a Pounder, it shows the expected concentration in the > North East of England. None left of my line in the Bolton area but there > has always been a pocket of them in Burnley which still shows though we have > never found a link to them (wish some of them would appear on DNA!). > > > > > Martin Briscoe > Fort William > Ancestry DNA, FTDNA (B68554), GEDMatch (A374507) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lynne [mailto:lklein@mindspring.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 12:24 AM > To: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LAN] Surname distribution > > Hello all > > If you are curious to know where in the world your surname or the surname

Another, and IMO better site for U.K research is http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/default.aspx which offers county based maps (as opposed to the "heat map" used by http://named.publicprofiler.org/ ) and which offers maps and data based on the 1881 census and also 1998 electoral register data. -- Bob C http://www.bccy.org.uk and http://extra.bccy.org.uk On 25/07/2018 00:24, Lynne wrote: > Hello all > > If you are curious to know where in the world your surname or the surname you're researching exists, you may be interested in what Dick Eastman wrote about the "Locate My Name" in a recent newsletter: > <snip> > The Locate My Name website is at <http://www.locatemyname.com/> > > Ancestry has a similar feature at <https://tinyurl.com/y7sfmgde>, but I believe it only draws upon statistics from the 1891 census. > > Lynne > > _______________________________________________ >

Surnames have always been enormously fascinating to me. Both my parents had locational surnames - one from West Yorks and the other from East Lancs. This means to me that both families moved FROM their original settlement and were allocated these names by their new settlement at a time BEFORE people had surnames. Just to differentiate them from people with the same christian name in their new settlement. Nowadays - if I meet someone new - I find myself thinking about how they got their surname. Occupation, whether they lived near a bridge or a hill etc -- physical characteristic - if they were a serf perhaps and ended up with 'man' at the end of their name -- which I've always thought meant they had been someone's serf or servant.A really interesting subject for me. Regards June