Your Filipino Surname - FamilySearch Was your surname native to the Philippines, was it assigned from the Catálogo alfabético de Apellidos, or does it have some other origin? Input your surname to find its potential origin and discover records
Surname Distribution Maps - FamilySearch Sometimes it is possible to guess where a surname originated through surname distribution maps These maps graphically display locations where surnames occurred at different periods in time
Surname Research - FamilySearch The British 19th Century Surname Atlas, by Archer Software shows distribution maps for surnames and given names found in the 1881 census of England, Wales and Scotland
What Is a Cooper? - FamilySearch What is a cooper? Learn more about the history of barrel-makers and how the occupation eventually became a surname
What are the different parts of a persons name? - FamilySearch In the complete name Mrs Bernice Elizabeth Lamb Shurts, the surname is Shurts Depending on the culture, some records list both the mother's family name and the father's family name as surnames
Miller Name Meaning and Miller Family History at FamilySearch History: As a name of Swiss German origin (see 2 above) the surname Miller is characteristic of the American Mennonites and Amish, being one of the two most common surnames among them (the other is Yoder ) The first Mennonite immigrant (s) bearing this name came to PA in the early 18th century