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Useful Links
The following are some links that we feel you might find interesting or useful in the field of Surname History and Heraldry. Please note our policy on links to external sites in our terms and conditions.

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The Heraldry Society

The Heraldry Society exists to increase and extend interest in and knowledge of heraldry, armoury, chivalry, genealogy and allied subjects.

 

 

 www.theheraldrysociety.com

 

 

 

The National Trust

You can enter a surname and see a map of how it was distributed in the 1881 Census, and how things stood in 1998. The 1881 maps are often a good indicator of where a surname may have originated.

 

 

 

 www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

Surnames of England & Wales

Here you will find the Office of Statistics 2002 surname data. This will tell you how common a surname is in England and Wales – useful for working out if people with the same name are likely to be related

 

 

 

 www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php

 

 

 

Irish Ancestors

Type your Irish surname in the search engine and you’ll be presented with a map showing the location and number of bearers in 1850, how many births there were in 1890, and a history of the name

 

 

 www.ireland.com/ancestor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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