Surname Atlas v1.2

The British 19th Century Surname Atlas is a fully interactive CD-Rom product that displays floodfill-style distribution maps for all of the surnames and forenames found in the 1881 census of England, Scotland and Wales. Using the program is simplicity itself: just insert the CD in your drive and wait for it to load. Then enter a surname in the data entry box and hit enter. A map for that surname appears almost instantly.

These are some of its features:

• Display any of the 400,000+ surnames & variants that appear in the 1881 census. In many cases the maps will indicate the probable geographical origin of a surname.
• Similarly plot any of the 160,000+ forenames, and view their popularity through time.
• Aggregate data by county or district.
• Plot data as actual numbers, or a density (‘per 100,000’ of the population).
• Include any collection of name variants on each map.
• Investigate surname elements using wildcards (e.g. *thorpe)
• Display lists of surnames characteristic of particular counties
• Show one or four surname maps at any one time.
• Zoom and pan the maps to frame exactly the area you want to see.
• Configure colours schemes, boundaries & numeric ranges.
• Print maps, or export to the Windows clipboard.