UCL Surname Profiler
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UCL SURNAME PROFILES Professor Paul Longley and Dr Alex Singleton University College London Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Spatial is Special! – www.spatial- literacy.org
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- 1. UCL SURNAME PROFILES Professor Paul Longley and Dr Alex Singleton University College London Department of Geography andCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Spatial is Special! www.spatial-literacy.org
2. UCL Names in the Media 3. 4. Have I got News for You http://www.spatial-literacy.org/?page_id=62 5. Learning Objectives
- To find out what family names can tell us about people and places in Great Britain
- To understand what mapping of family names can tell us about migration and settlement structure in Great Britain over the last 120 years
- To understand what family names can tell us about international migration
6. Taking UCL Surnames Profiles further
- www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames
- 26 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Oceania
- Covering a total population of 1 billion people
- Individual level data for 300 million people (full name and address)
- 10.8 million unique surnames
- 6.5 million unique forenames
- Statistics at postcode level