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Map of Surnames in Europe

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Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by asavadatti »

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…

This has been happening since the dawn of civilization. Why are you so upset about it happening now?

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by nickysielicki »

tompagenet2 wrote: post #2

Is this normalised at all? It always seems to look like a map of where cities are, although there are some interesting trends, especially if you pick surnames that have more recently become prevalent in a country.

My surname is Polish, sort of, and it’s typically more associated with what was historically northeast Poland/Vilnius.

If you search my surname (Sielicki) you can see how there was a resettlement between the lands lost on the east and gained in the west after WWII.

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Post by sjmm1989 »

temp0826 wrote: post #124
sjmm1989 wrote: post #114

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I've accepted that the internet wants my data and have been using Brave for a few years now. Seems like a fair compromise, and their adblocking is pretty decent, even if I get to put up with their little pop ups now and then for BAT tokens. I have it set to maximum ad rate, and just ignore them mostly. They are sort of intrusive, but also not really. Depends on what you are doing. I've had them pop up in the middle o…

There aren't enough tokens in the world to make me accept what you describe about brave. Always surprised when I read HNers actually using it. It just sounds really scummy what they do to me.

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Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by sjmm1989 »

failedengineer wrote: post #138
sjmm1989 wrote: post #114

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I've accepted that the internet wants my data and have been using Brave for a few years now. Seems like a fair compromise, and their adblocking is pretty decent, even if I get to put up with their little pop ups now and then for BAT tokens. I have it set to maximum ad rate, and just ignore them mostly. They are sort of intrusive, but also not really. Depends on what you are doing. I've had them pop up in the middle o…

That top ad, the one with the "search for names" text boxes that sure looks like you're entering info for your website that actually redirects you to another search website... yeah, that one is particularly pernicious.

Never seen that one yet? That seems new to me. But yeah I suppose it would annoy some people.

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Post by Cd00d »

krylon wrote: post #142
k4shm0n3y wrote: post #62

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Reminds me of a scare I had when I was dating my now wife. We were discussing our families and turns out our mothers had the same first name... and their maiden surnames were the same. It's a fairly common Irish name and there was no traceable relation but talk about a potential freakout! Made for a great bit during my father-in-law's speech at our wedding.

I'm glad it worked out for you. It is a funny story, though, so don't be mad at me for chuckling a little bit. (I guess the guests at your wedding did so, too.) A friend of my mother's has to twin sons who married two women who had not only the same first name but also worked at the same company. Both ladies took their husbands' names, so they both had the same names. I imagine it must have been both funny and confus…

our ERP software used the name as a primary key for employees

As someone with a common first name and common surname, this drives me bananas.

I still get emails from my graduate university to email: first.last@uni.edu meant for some undergraduate in a sea of 50k students, and have to reply that I've had that email for 20 years and they have the wrong person with a very common name.

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Post by UncleSlacky »

zepolen wrote: post #59
neonnoodle wrote: post #18

This map is ""fun"" if your family/ancestry was affected by the Holocaust. I am of German ancestry, with one branch being Catholic and another branch Jewish. The Catholic surname is still abundant right in the region of origin, the Jewish surname(s) are, well, let's just say they're not there.

Neither is Hitler.

You'd have to check Austria.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by UncleSlacky »

notahacker wrote: post #153
rory wrote: post #65

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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

Probably a neonazi who changed their name.
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