"What's in a name?" Juliet asked as she and Romeo tried to puzzle their way around the troubling problem of their warring families. Well, plenty, the most detailed investigation into surnames in ...

In most societies, surnames are passed on from father to son, just like the Y chromosome. This suggests that men who share the same surnames may have Y chromosomes that are related to one another. A ...

Last names or surnames offer information on ancestry, occupation, geography, and even social standing. In several countries, certain surnames have gained such a majority that they are representative ...

A shy child who liked to spend most of her time at home, Viviane Bowell grew up with the feeling that she was in the wrong society. Born in the vibrant Egypt of the first half of the 20th century, ...

THERE is perhaps room for a new history of British surnames since Bardsley and Harrison published their works on the subject. Mr. Ewen has given his history a wider scope than Bardsley and has brought ...

It's a peculiarity of Ireland, or at least it used to be, that not only do most families here have two surnames, quite a few of them have three. There is the Irish original, of course, and there is ...

In 2004, Buddhist Master Hsing Yun (星雲) wrote a letter to fellow Buddhists during the Lunar New Year, saying that Taiwanese were originally from provinces in China, which means the two sides of the ...

Many of us are keen to delve into our ancestry, family history, and potential relatives. The era of laboriously combing through heritage records and census data is over, thanks to various online ...