• telephone and address directories
  • registers of wills or deceased estates
  • electoral rolls
  • land possession records
  • military service indexes
  • national bibliographies
  • archival catalogues
  • patent databases
  • reports of law cases
  • tax lists
  • newspaper indexes and web searches
  • linguistic origins of the surname
  • use in place names

  • use in corporate names

  • Steve Archer’s Surname Atlas CD - map of surname distribution from e.g. Census

  • http://www.one-name.org/GettingTheMost-Guild.pdf
  • http://goo.gl/5FvX6
  • http://www.hardcastle.de