World names profiler
Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Sep, 2008World names profiler
A fascinating site on the worldwide distribution of particular surnames which has been compiled by researchers from the University College London (UCL) using publically available sources of information such as electoral registers and telephone directories. It contains information on over 300 million names covering 26 nations from Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. Users may type in their surnmae to view visual mappings and statistics on its distribution worldwide. Technical and methodological information is displayed on the website. It would be of particular value to family historians and researchers of migration history as well as human geographers. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames1/
From Celia: I found this great fun