Research your surname and your family tree : find out what your surname means and trace your ancestors who share it too /
Graeme Davis.
- Oxford : How To Books, c2010.
- ix, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
This book will enable you to find out about your own surname or any other surnames you are interested in: how old it is, where it comes from, what it meant and what associations it has today. Perhaps your surname is that of a Norman who fought at the Battle of Hastings. Maybe it is a legacy of mediaeval occupation. Perhaps it is distinctive of a particular location. Just possibly you might be related to everyone who bears the name - find out! Genealogies and family history.