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Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by boredumb »

frankfrankfrank wrote: post #145

What I find rather depressing about these kinds of things is that they will be utterly useless to learn anything from going forward in just a few more generations, after the atrocity of forced integration and so called "diversity" will permanently and irrevocably muddle and pollute all cultures and people and societies all throughout the world. We will soon no longer need to fight over ethnicity and race, because we…

You are expressing a forbidden truth quite well. The marketing power behind this agenda does an incredible job of scrubbing away any of the ill effects of globalization paired with an obvious effort to discredit and obfuscate any coherent arguments against it.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by BuildTheRobots »

wsinks wrote: post #149
toyg wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - most people here use an efficient addblocker Yup. I was like, "this is a very oldschool site, super-essential, bare styling..." I guess all that whitespace is covered in ads for you, lol.

ha! I don't use an adblocker, and when I first loaded this page, it looked great! and then I quickly quit out and came to the comments instead of using it. And then I saw this, and went back... Oh. I just wasn't on the page long enough to see just how many ads were loaded, wow!!

You make not using an adblocker seem like an active choice - can I ask why?

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by notahacker »

rory wrote: post #65
pixelbreaker wrote: post #63

https://www.surnamemap.eu/unitedkingdom/index.php?sur=hitler...

Seems like a good local news fluff piece. "The last Hitler in England"

Suspect it's someone trolling a census. There's also a Skywalker in London, which is probably more likely to be someone that took the campaign to get Jedi recognised as a religion in the UK way too far than the last vestiges of the Skywalker dynasty

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by vehemenz »

frankfrankfrank wrote: post #145

What I find rather depressing about these kinds of things is that they will be utterly useless to learn anything from going forward in just a few more generations, after the atrocity of forced integration and so called "diversity" will permanently and irrevocably muddle and pollute all cultures and people and societies all throughout the world. We will soon no longer need to fight over ethnicity and race, because we…

Why are you so attached to recent history? Populations and cultures have always been in flux throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Nearly every language and religion that have ever existed are now extinct. You don't get Italians, Indians, or Nigerians unless that happens in the first place.

Here are some more facts that might melt your mind:

- Until very recently, there were no Spanish speakers in the Americas.

- Ancient "European" admixtures have been found in modern-day China.

- 50,000 years ago, the inhabitants of the British Isles had dark skin and light hair like Melanesians.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by eridan2 »

wazoox wrote: post #60

Vaguely related amusing bit of trivia: the word for smith or blacksmith is one of the most common names about everywhere: Smith (England), Schmidt (Germany), Smit/Smet (Belgium, Netherlands), Fabre/Favre/Lefèvre/Lefèbvre (France), Ferrari/Fabri (Italy), Ferrero/Herrero (Spain), Ferreiro (Portugal), Kowalski (Poland), Haddad (Morocco), Demirci (Turkey), Demirdjian (Armenia), Gof/Goff/Le Goff (Brittany, Wales), Gowan/G…

Not in Romania (the Hungarian name Kovacs is #90, and the Romanian names Feraru/Fieraru are not in top 100) But Popa (priest) is #1, Popescu (son of a priest) is #2, Cojocaru (furrier) is #46 and Szabo (tailor in Hungarian) is #62

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by eridan2 »

funcDropShadow wrote: post #49
Bayart wrote: post #20

It seems accurate, albeit a bit outdated, for my extremelly rare familly name (I know most of the people who bear it, and we're still clustering around what I assume is our ancestral village), but the more common form of the same name is not in the database.

I concur, my surname exists only twice in Germany. And this map shows the place where I live and where I used to live. The place where my mother lives is not on the map. I guess the map is rather detailed. I'd like to know where the data is from.

The Italian site (which is the original project) says: Surname maps have been obtained by processing data from telephone directories in the 1990s

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by eridan2 »

runxel wrote: post #41

It works quite well, but bear in mind that the dataset must be already quite old. Based on my ancestors extremely rare name (only family in Germany) I would say at least 15 years old – but accurate for that matter!

The data sets are the phonebooks from the 1990s - see https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/info.php

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by nickcw »

Nashooo wrote: post #85
jonenst wrote: post #80

This website is overloaded with adds. It almost feels like a scam. Based on the fact that almost all other comments are not talking about it, I guess at least one of the following hypotheses is true (if not all of them): - most people here use an efficient addblocker - The website changed since its first appearance on the first page (maximize revenue?) - some comments are sponsored - on mobile it feels overwhelming b…

It also tried to autocomplete CC data.. Feels like a scam.

It did that for me too. I can't see why though when looking at the HTML.
Maybe it is a bug in Chrome.
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