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MARCH 2020 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL
SURNAME DISTRIBUTION MAPS
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This month's issue of First Friday Genealogy with Sassy Jane shares 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 Databaseaccording 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.

Click here to visit my blog post about German Surname Mapping.
Geopatronyme
 

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. 

On March 14, I'll be part of the North Carolina Virtual Conference with a webinar on cataloging family photographs. I hope to meet readers in person at the Houston Genealogical Forum and the San Diego Genealogical Society Super Saturday, both in April, and at the National Genealogical Society annual meeting in Salt Lake City in May. 

Have fun with your research this month, stay healthy, and see you in April.
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