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[pale-september.livejournal.com]

I found this the other day, and thought some of you might be interested. It tells you a brief history of your surname and shows your family crest. It passes the time when you're bored...lol

www.houseofnames.com

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[itcouldbelove.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link. it's interesting. :)

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

Only half of my (hyphenated name) is there. boo.

cool though!

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

They don't even have my maiden name. :( And somtimes they're wrong on the surname history, actually.

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

really? Te anmet hey did have didn't say the same as what I had thought my name originated from. haha oh well.

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

They tried saying my husband's Danish last name was Scottish. Yeah, okay.

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

Mine was said to be Irish (hence my confusion lol) and my name form the Ukraine wasn't there.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

haha i have a danish last name and they are saying it's german...

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Does it end in SEN (like 99.9% of Danish names)? Ours ends in SEN and they also like to say it could be German, too.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

yes mine ends in SEN too.

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you know SEN just means "son of" in Danish/Norwegian. How they get German out of that is beyond me...or Scottish.......
Gets my husband annoyed. Danes are very proud and don't like to be called anything else.

I thought you were in Denmark but turns out you live in Wisconsin. Why did all the Danes go to Wisconsin? :)

[solyma.livejournal.com]

yes, i did know that! i think my last name means "son of jorgen" which probably gives away what my last name is. ;) i wish i was in denmark! i'd like to go there sometime and be with my "people" haha. ;)

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

You don't want to be here right now. It is hot and I am sunburned (I know you don't think of ScandiLand as hot but Denmark is weird!).

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Very interesting :)