Not really a meme, unless we make it so

1. Go to http://channels.netscape.com/atplay/nameorigin.jsp
2. Do "Search for Your Surname", and "How common is your surname in America"?
3. Post results on "Civil War Service","Life expectancy", "Occupations", your surname number and anything else you find interesting while looking at the site.
4. Pass it along to other people, to fulfill burning curiosity about random trivia on your friends!


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My results:

Civil War Service: 2 Confederate Veterans
139 Union Veterans

Life Expectancy: just under 80 years old, higher than general public by approx a year or two (eyeballing the graph).

Occupations in 1880: 24%-farmers (lower than Gen Pub), 11%-laborers (higher than GP), 7%-Keeping house (higher than GP), 4%-carpenter (higher than GP), 2%-shoemaker (higher than GP), 2%-blacksmith (higher than GP)

Surname number: 5581 (out of...alot?)

Anything else interesting: My last name is an agent derivative of Middle High German for "to teach", and it's a derivation of a Jewish nickname for someone with white hair or a noticeably pale complexion, in Middle High German.
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Wooo, I'm a dork.