THANKYOU Crawford, Cheers Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crawford MacKeand" <jcbmck@udel.edu> To: <SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:44 AM Subject: [WIG LIST] UK Family Maps >I have just spent a totally addictive hour with a UK site which has mapped > the locations of family names across Great Britain from the 1881 census > and the 1998 electoral registers. > > www.spatial-literacy.org > > Enter your family name and you will first get a map showing where in > England, Scotland and Wales there were people in those records with that > name. The spelling does have to be exact, but if for example "Whitric" > shows no entries (which means less than 100 were found) then just enter > "whitr" and you'll get a great choice to play with. I found "Whitrick" for > example to be from the right area for some of my ancestors. Spelling was > pretty flexible in the 1700s!! They have extracted 26,000 names ---- and > that takes you to some quite uncommon ones! Scottish and English areas are > mapped, but unfortunately Irish data only appear in the geographical list. > > Also click on "1998" map to see where they all are today. "Geographical > Locations" above the map will also, if you scroll down, tell you which > Australian and which USA states had the most of that name. > > It's a project of the University of London, and really works very well. > > Crawford. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >