[LMB] OT: Geographic origin of your surname - website

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:12:52 +0000 (GMT) rizwana z <riz_lists at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

 >  http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/default.aspx

 >   For those interested in the geographic origin of their surname
 > and  even if you have a fair idea of your heritage the above
 > website is great.
 >   This is a project investigating the distribution of surnames
 > -  current and historic - in Great Britain.
 >   The surname search button is near the right hand corner.
 >   Once you’ve searched your surname there is a geographic map
 > of where the name is and was and also at the top of the map DON’T
 > MISS the links to 'Frequency and Ethnicity' and 'Geographical
 > Location'.
 >   Have fun!!
 >   Ps. Bujold isnt there but Mcmaster is….

 >   Riz  :)

And of course my father's people would not vbe there ... the Bristol, 
Connecticut Ashleys are really laFrenieres ... and the Rosses who show 
up in such numbers in Ross-shire are remote cousins at best to the Irish 
Rosses my mother is descended from. (County Antrim, I think.) But it may 
prove informative to others!
-- 
B. Ross Ashley
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