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I really should do some research into my family tree. My uncle who lives in Canada is interested in this as well so I could probably get him to help me and to do the research for my Canadian aunt's history.
I did once do a family tree for school when I was in year 5 or 6. I only got one credit for it and my Mum was mad at that. We spent ages on it. There is that family name research site that the BBC News did an article on. Basically you enter your family name into the site and it shows a map of the UK and colours the parts of the country where the name comes from historically. Running both Lister (my new name after parents divorced, Mum's maiden name btw) and Caldwell (my father's name/my maiden name) I get a very heavy occurence in Greater Manchester and to a lesser extent Lancashire. Caldwell seems to get a little more than comfortable hit in Scotland in the Dumfries/Glasgow corner. 
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30-10-2007, 19:38
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30-10-2007, 20:08
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30-10-2007, 20:10
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Try it now.
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Fascinating.
The top area in the UK for my surname in both 1881 and 1998 (and presumably in between) was the town in which I was born and brought up (Lerwick) - common as muck, me 
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