A fascinating website from UCL
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tree_and_leafEver wondered where most people with your surname lived (in the UK)? Help is at hand.
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx This fascinating, although currently rather slow site shows the concentrations of people of that name in each county in either 1998 or 1881; you can also look at the ethnicity figures for that name.
Mine didn't tell me anything much I didn't know - I have a typically Lancastrian name (no, it's not Longbottom, and that's all I'm saying on this subject), despite the fact that I was born and brought up in Scotland - and the picture reflected that. Although there was a colony of - Not-Longbottoms in Oxfordshire, which explains why I keep being given the wrong books in Bodley.
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx This fascinating, although currently rather slow site shows the concentrations of people of that name in each county in either 1998 or 1881; you can also look at the ethnicity figures for that name.
Mine didn't tell me anything much I didn't know - I have a typically Lancastrian name (no, it's not Longbottom, and that's all I'm saying on this subject), despite the fact that I was born and brought up in Scotland - and the picture reflected that. Although there was a colony of - Not-Longbottoms in Oxfordshire, which explains why I keep being given the wrong books in Bodley.
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-31 03:14 pm (UTC)Patience, or possibly coming back later, seems to be indicated. Thus far, however, I have established that Harry has a good chance of being - ancestrally - East Anglian, and that Dumbledore is Not Statistically Significant.
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-31 04:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-31 03:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-31 03:33 pm (UTC)Glad you found the site interesting!
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:08 pm (UTC)Plugging my surname into this for 1998 gives 600 people worldwide. A Town Hall's worth, with room for catering and a band. Oh for the dosh to do this!
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:57 am (UTC)