Does your surname link you to royalty – or does it mark out your ancestors as fools, philanderers – or just plain ugly? From the common (Smith), unusual (Bonehill) to the downright bizarre (Gotobed), ...
Track the origins of your surname with these seven last name 'types'... Do you know where your surname comes from? For a lot of you reading this (this writer included) your surname won't actually have ...
Research led by University of Leicester geneticists, comparing the DNA of 150 pairs of men who share British surnames, has shown that about a quarter of pairs are linked genetically. Their findings ...
The origins of some last names are pretty self-explanatory, whether it's Baker, Shepherd or even Rotten. But many surnames make no sense at all, at least not to the average Joe without a degree in Old ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – It's no surprise Smith is the most common S last name in Cuyahoga County. But what about the rest of the alphabet? Cleveland.com took a look through the Cuyahoga County voter rolls ...
British scientists, working on techniques which could help know a person's surname from his DNA, have found that between two men sharing the same surname there is a 24 per cent chance of having a ...
Patel and Piotrowski are now more common surnames in the UK than Pauncefoot, new research shows. The Guild of One-Name Studies says there are now up to half a million surnames in use in Britain and ...
What happened to the Pauncefoots? It’s no good asking the Bythewoods - some traditional surnames that date back hundreds of years are now becoming extinct, a new book claims. By Jasper Copping and ...
English Heritage has revealed the meaning of the surnames of England's star players as the Three Lions prepare to make history this weekend. England captain Harry Kane's family name is most common in ...
Many of us like to imagine we are distantly related to royalty and that like Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries we will be whisked away to live in a castle. Some celebrities are known to have a ...
Rich families stay rich and poor families stay poor, according to a new study that finds that English people whose ancestors were elite in the 1100s are still likely part of the upper crust today. The ...
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