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November 18, 2017

Surnames A-Z: F Names

There's a new meme going around Facebook right now. Genealogists are listing their mother's maiden name, father's surname, maternal and paternal grandparents' surnames and a few more generations back.

It's a cute idea but I don't think it's wise to be providing such detail, especially your mother's maiden name, as it is often the secret question asked on sites where you require a password to log in.

So I'm revising the meme to suit me and I hope others will follow suit, either here as a comment on Olive Tree Genealogy blog, or on their own blog.

Over the coming weeks I'll be listing my surnames starting with "A" and going through the alphabet until I reach "Z".

I'll preface this with a caveat - most surnames are more common than you might think, so sharing a surname doesn't mean we're related. To be completely useful any surname list should have a geographic location and a time period. But this is just a fun little exercise and if you spot a name of interest, just let me know and we'll compare dates and locations.

F SURNAMES: Faierman, Flood, Fox, Frances, Freende, Friar, Fuller

Join me - maybe we connect! Find previous surnames on Surnames A-Z

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Fatland (Norwegian, in ND after 1890), Fender (mostly Scots-Irish, in Pacific NW after 1900), Fonda (New Netherland)

Unknown said...

FONDA (New Netherland to present)
FATLAND (Norwegian settled in NW ND ca. 1900; women came to Pacific NW during WW II to work as Rosie the Riveters
FENDER (Scots Irish PA to TN to IL to E WA, dispersed across Pacific NW, intermarried with Norwegian and German)

Marcy Belles said...

http://familyandmemories.blogspot.com/2018/01/surnames-z-f-names.html