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by Queen_C
Found out today that my surname has been found as far back as 40 A.D. in Scotland !! Being as the only people to have had an influence on Scotland back then were the Vikings, it would seem that the name was imported by them.

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Vikings in 40 AD? Try Picts!

Your ancestors were running around naked and painted in blue woad... in Scottish winters

What does that tell you?

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by Astronut
(quotes)Vikings in 40 AD? Try Picts!

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The typo demon strikes again....that should read 800 AD

i wouldnt mind tracing mine but being welsh with the surname jones *could* prove difficult!!!

Awww, we cant trace our family tree back anymore, goes to America on my mums side, and some sort of mediteranean country on my Dads

Must be nice to know woh was your family before though

My mum traced back our family for at least five generations but I have no idea where the family tree went after she died. I originally come from Gibraltar and on my mum's side my relatives are all Italian immigrants from Genoa (they escaped the Napoleonic wars). So I guess that I need to go back to Gib and re-do all her work.

What I do have is loads of photos. I wish I had the time and inclination to catalouge them as i have boxes of the stuff. I want to do it soon and bring one of my aunts over to tell me who the people are as I don't know most of them. The oldest photo I have is of my gran as a little girl in 1910.