Genealogy

**gilmore** · 2nd October 08, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by O'Callaghan

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When I plugged in various other Irish names, I found a broadly similar pattern. It seems the largest numbers of Irish emigrated "Down Under", and that after that more went to the UK than the US, which defies conventional wisdom I think, but conventional wisdom is not always correct. To read some sources you would think that most Irish who emigrated went to the US, but it obviously isn't so. Still, there's no doubt that the USA gave the world St. Patrick's Day parades, LOL!

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I have read that as much as 25% of Americans claim to be of Irish descent, but of course the reality is that the figure is much smaller than that. It seems to be thought of as a colorful and interesting ethnic group.

**irishcoloradoan** · 6th October 08, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by davedove

Interesting, I knew that Dove is an English name, so I'm not surprised to find Dove's in all the former empire, but oddly enough, it seems a lot of Doves are found in Slovenia.

Slovenia? Dove must be derived from something else in their language.

It's interesting to notice that in the US most of the Doves seem to be in Virginia and Maryland. Now, I'm from Illinois originally, but from what I have been able to find, my Dove line came from Maryland originally (Annapolis to be exact) through Virginia, then west to Illinois.

Weird, my surname is Pivik - very rare Slovenian name that doesn't even show in the database in Slovenia! But I heard stories about it being butchered when my g grandfather came over.

The other side of my family, Clarke (the Irish side) was interesting but not surprising.

**Mipi** · 7th October 08, 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by irishcoloradoan

Weird, my surname is Pivik - very rare Slovenian name that doesn't even show in the database in Slovenia! But I heard stories about it being butchered when my g grandfather came over.

The other side of my family, Clarke (the Irish side) was interesting but not surprising.

Did you try name Pivk? I also never heard of name Pivik in Slovenia. Usually when someone moves to other country (sopeaking differnt language) names are changed, a bit or even completly.

**irishcoloradoan** · 7th October 08, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by Mipi

Did you try name Pivk? I also never heard of name Pivik in Slovenia. Usually when someone moves to other country (sopeaking differnt language) names are changed, a bit or even completly.

Cool - I'd be willing to bet that's where the name comes from. I'll ask my Great Uncle next time I'm in my hometown - he goes over a lot to visit our relative but I've not spoken to him in a few years. Thanks!

**Wompet** · 7th October 08, 03:52 PM

My one brother sent me that link independently about the same time this thread started.
Robertson and Sackett gave the expected results, but Van Vlack (my only non-gaelic or -brythonic line) confused it, even when I used the root Van Vleckren.

**Woot22** · 8th October 08, 05:56 PM

Great site, I have never been to that one before. Really cool stuff, my surname results were like I thought, top city was Aberdeen Scotland which is where my great grandfather came from. Interestingly there appears not to be many of us in Michigan which is where I was born.

**Highlander31** · 10th October 08, 06:17 AM

Great site. Thanks for posting it.

**SFCRick** · 10th October 08, 05:16 PM

very cool, fun site to play with

**AL-58** · 17th October 08, 04:18 AM

They seem to have missed me completely.

The results for Pennykid are:

Frequency per Million
UNITED KINGDOM 0.55
CANADA 0.23
SPAIN 0.1

They've missed my lot in Australia completely and I know there are 5 of us!

That gives us an FPM in Australia of 0.232983101

Popular name eh?

Al

**BoldHighlander** · 17th October 08, 04:24 PM

Cool map.

It's interesting to see how certain names are spread out across the world.

Did some checking on some surnames in my family, including Holmes, Scobee (& its variants), West, & Moore. The most interesting thing I found was the origin listed for Scobee & Moore, and it makes me wonder how accurate this site is in regards to name origin?

For Scobee it was unknown, for Scobie it was Scottish, & Scoby English -- all 3 appear in my linage / Scoby is a variant also found in Scotland though it does appear in England & is said to be taken from a Norse place name for 'farm' (the Scottish Scobie's etc said to take their name from Rescobie, however this is in Forfar & not Perthshire, where the name is said to orginate ).

For Moore - English, O'More - unknown, & O'Moore - English
(Moore & O'More are also variants in my family from Ulster - my O'Mores traced to the pre-plantation era).

Interesting.....