The Internet Surname Database has over 49,000 last names with information on where a name comes from and what it means.
They also review Genealogy and Family Tree sites and Genealogy DNA tests.
“We are a family run web site, that has built up a database of surname origins over the last 20 years. The research was started by the founder of “Name Origin Research” Michael Brook and the requests for surname researches came in via mail order and off the page advertising. The business grew to a team of 5 researchers based in the Republic of Ireland, and ran for many years before the mail order market became much tougher and business became unprofitable. …Then in October 2006 we decided that rather than let the database fester, we would open it up to the world at large via this wonder fully medium we refer to as the world wide web. …
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