This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Relatively Speaking

From the Dynastree website:
Would you like to know the geographical distribution of your surname in the US? Here you will find the distribution of your surname sorted by states. Type your surname in the search field!
Here you find the absolute and relative distribution of your surname: the absolute distribution will give you an approximate number of persons with the surname living in a certain state. The relative distribution indicates the proportion of persons with that surname in a certain state in relation to the total size of the population.