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Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 103 Send Message	Sue	Report	24 Aug 2007 21:34
	Found a good site about surname meanings and origins www.surnamedb.com.
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 3 663 Send Message	Suzanne	Report	24 Aug 2007 22:14
	will look at it now,sounds fun.x
	Researching: price,lambert,goodlass,mcdonald
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 1 538 Send Message	Sprack	Report	24 Aug 2007 22:18
	They cant find mine its too rare lol. Jenny
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20 615 Send Message	Heather	Report	24 Aug 2007 22:20
	Mine too. Names tend to fall into three categories Occupations Places Descriptions (character or physical) Mine is a place one!
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 442 Send Message	Scouser from Leicester	Report	24 Aug 2007 22:24
	Just had a look it's a good site so I checked my name and this is what come up. (Locality). From a French province of that name. Magne, great, large, rich, powerful, the same as magnus in Latin.