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Title: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: Ticker on Monday 20 February 06 20:11 GMT (UK)

Surname distribution maps for 1881 and 1998

http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/default.aspx

Title: Re: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Monday 20 February 06 20:23 GMT (UK)

... and a Rootschat discussion, to go with it   ;D

Topic: Surname distribution 1881/1998 - GB
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,180449.0.html

Title: Re: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: MaecW on Saturday 29 August 15 02:46 BST (UK)

Does anybody know where this very useful database has gone ? I know it was taken over by the National Trust a few years ago but none of the old links are working and it doesn't appear to be listed/linked on the NT site any longer. Googling only raised the old links also.
Maec

Title: Re: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: Ruskie on Saturday 29 August 15 05:29 BST (UK)

Try this one:

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/

Title: Re: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: MaecW on Saturday 29 August 15 12:27 BST (UK)

Thanks Ruskie, but I have tried that site several times in the last three/four days and keep getting the same reply: "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
It seems unlikely to have been "temporarily unavailable" for that length of time. Are the NT no longer hosting the database ?
Maec

Title: Re: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: Ruskie on Monday 31 August 15 00:12 BST (UK)

I used it last week. Maybe try again in a day or two - there may be a problem their end.

I think it's been quite a while since the NT hosted it.

Added: The link that I supplied above is working for me at the moment.

Title: Re: Link: Surname Profiler
Post by: MaecW on Friday 04 September 15 13:22 BST (UK)

Yup - OK now. They must have been doing some maintenance or something.
Thanks for your help.
Maec