Have you ever seen the game “Where’s Waldo?” Sometimes finding your family can be much like that as you find many family members with the same surname.
Today I found a very interesting tool, that while wont give you a definitive result of where your family name originated it will give you all the places where there are people with that surname.
Its called the World Names Profiler, and what is really fun about this is that you may have thought that your family originated and is predominately from one area and another that you never considered is shown with the numbers per thousand of that surname.
I have long known that my surname is of Irish decent but what really baffles me is that almost as many come from Australia. Now I KNOW that, but for some reason I cant link to the Aussies. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
The site shows you an interactive world map and color codes the density of the surname. If you click on the country it does a further breakdown for you. This is not as refined as I would like but it does do “well enough” to get a good idea.
So, if you are just a tad curious, check out the site and have a little fun… you may find out something you had never considered before. The site: World Names Profiler
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