MARCH 2020 ISSUE INTERNATIONAL
SURNAME DISTRIBUTION MAPS
This month's issue of First Friday Genealogy with Sassy Janeshares websites offering surname distribution maps. These resources illustrate geographic regions where specific surnames are clustered, using nominative records, such as census, phone directories, and voting lists.
Database of Surnames in the Netherlands
Nederlandse Familienamenbank
More than 320,000 family names are mapped in the Dutch Family Names Database, according to the Municipal Records Database of 2007 and the census of 1947.
Results often include a name statement, older name information, and naming and genealogical literature references. Names may also include links to variant clusters. You can also link to web pages about specific name types and name components.
Geopatronyme maps the distribution and development of French and "foreign origin" surnames in France. The "Names Missing" section includes 1.3 million names from 1891-1940, for which no births were recorded in France after 1940. Most mapping data is from 1941-1970.
Mapa de Apellidos
Mapa de Apellidos contains 14 million names in Spain gathered in "a huge and meticulous work based on the telephone directories of the 1990s." Although the underlying data is recent, the name clusters can provide geographic leads to genealogists.
WordClouds.com
Stuck on a brick wall? Take a break and make a surname word cloud. The butterfly-shaped word cloud shown at top includes 8 generations of surnames from my family tree.
I suspect this another one of those "only a genealogist would think this is cool." But it is!
To make your own surname word cloud, visit wordclouds.com.
That's it for the March issue of First Friday Genealogy with Sassy Jane.