More about towns. Only hard to find and unusual surnames names at the moment please. I am sorry but this is a surnames index only. Famous people do tend not to change their surnames when they marry do they. Arts couples tend not to change their surnames, famous or not. Would anyone know about the surnames THAYER/HURLBUT/ATCHINSON that this clan is associate to. As mtDNA is passed down the female line how can any clan be associated with any surnames when these are generally passed down in the male line. I am talking only of female surnames before marriage and their mothers, maiden names. I just don't see how you can pick out a few surnames from the thousands of surnames associated with the mtDNA line in your clan, they would change in every generation in every line of descent. Most of these surnames are also probably borne by entirely unrelated people in other clans. Since surnames have been used only in recent times, do they have any relevance to ancient DNA-based lineages. Then trace and identify, as far back as possible in that area, common, contemporary-to-that-era or cultural/traditional surnames that were similar to or matched given/acquired surnames (or iinherited/ntergenerational skills/jobs that often provided a person with a surname before the agrarian, scientific and industrial revolutions), and compare them with the surnames you have found in your lineage. As some one rightly pointed out these are MALE THAYER surnames and mine was matrilinial.

- The Portuguese parts are more like supositions based on ancesters' surnames, as it's almost impossible to trace back the wheres and whens. Some of them have French surnames, but that's not unusual, since that region is at the French border, and it belonged to France several times throughout its history. If I look at the surnames, two of my mother's surnames are typically from that area, the other one is a very common Portuguese surname.

And this goes for men too; some couples hyphenate their surnames together, in which case the man must be prepared to rearrange his records, too. Most often, however, women take their husbands' surnames, so we'll work under that assumption.

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