Family Genealogies and Pedegrees Each surname has a story to tell. A history of it's own. As a general rule, most surnames are recent to the modern era. An excellent introduction to the patern of naming paterns pre 1600, can be found at the Middle Ages Scotia site. As additional identifiers took hold, names which continued in the family from generation to generation came into being. ...Until recently when unique names and hyphen-names have returned to the fore. Many in Ireland are taking their surnames and converting them into Gaelic names, regardless of their initial origin. Thus, even today, the idea of a stable surname is changing. >=welcome>about>help> back(to"start")>FamilyLines>continue

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