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A team of geographers from the University College London has developed a website which allows users to trace family origin through their surnames. The site covers a billion people in 26 countries, showing the origins of names and where families have scattered. The online maps also contain data on which 6.5 million forenames are most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for the presence of each last name. The maps also show that once families have moved to a new part of the world, they can remain concentrated in the local area where they settled.
Professor Paul Longley, who launched the site at the Royal Geographical Society’s conference in London, said: "This websites broadens the previous one and looks at the distribution of names in 26 countries. A name doesn’t just tell you who you are – but where you are, where you came from and where your family has gone."
