THE Isle of Skye was ruled by the clan system for centuries, in a mix of peaceful and turbulent times.'¨The most famous clans of the time were the MacLeods and MacDonalds, with the lesser known clans ...

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 ...

Arnold Cassola:I Maltesi di Vittoria e Scoglitti (1628-1846), Malta-Siracusa, Morrone Editore, 2018126 pages One of the newer research interests of Arnold Cassola is the field of demography, which ...

The origin of more than 45,000 surnames has been revealed by a team of university researchers. Farah, Twelvetrees and Li are amongst the 8,000 family names explained for the first time, alongside ...

Think you've got a classic last name? A small handful of surnames have dominated in the U.S. since 1790. But recent history ...

ALTHOUGH Scotland is a small country, with around 5.3 million inhabitants, there are believed to be as many as 100 million people of Scottish descent scattered around the world. Did you know with a ...

Researchers have shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. The results of the research have implications in the fields of forensics, genealogy, ...

They stem from Scotland, but are spread right across the globe - and no less so than in the North East, where they didn't have far to travel. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland ...

Imagine a world without surnames. I would be Megan, just Megan—one among many, many thousands of other Megans—instead of Megan Garber, one among a handful. Together, we would be unable to delight ...