I did a search for my last name online and found a website that has a character

Question:Being that there are less than a dozen of us left with this last name how do you think they came across it?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Being that there are less than a dozen of us left with this last name how do you think they came across it?

You have to trace your family to really know.

See the link below from the United States, The National Genealogical Society

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

There's no way anyone on YA can know this, unless a) you provide your last name (not recommended) and b) somehow someone reads this question, recognizes your last name, and knows the author of the website/story.

Maybe they seen the name somewhere and decided they liked it and wanted to make it their own . Then again, there may be more people out there with that name than you know about.

There are many so called genealogists out there just trying to make a buck from "suckers," and know how to make it seem as they know what they are doing.

You will need to do your own research to be certain of your family line in order to have proof of accuracy.

You may want to check

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...
The Mormon's mega-site.

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...
Roots Web World Connect.

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-b...
RW SSDI

before you say "There are only a dozen of us". Your surname might be more common than you think.

As a previous post said, unless you tell us your last name and the web site, no one can answer you. Genealogists are warm, witty, well-read, intelligent and devilishly handsome (at least the ones who frequent this board are) but we are not mind readers.

I sat behind a girl named "Diana Marie" and a Swedish surname in high school. I always liked the name. It had a particular lilt. Whoever has this web site may have been two rows behind you in Biology class, the way I sat behind Diana Marie, 40 years ago. If I ever write a detective novel, I may use her name for the character who worries about her brother but can't go to the police. She will walk into my office. I'll smell cheap perfume and trouble.

He may be a long-lost cousin. He might be your eccentric uncle, banished to Australia for fooling around with a chorus girl, now a wealthy gold miner with a flock of tame kangaroos.

I'd go with the Australian, if I had to choose.

some author said once that she used to get letters from people complaining that she had used their name(s). It's very common for people's names to pop up in fiction. (though I haven't found any characters with my last name yet--in English, anyway! Original form of the name is very common in its own country)

Anyway, it's possible that a) the author knew someone with that name; b) looked in a name book--I find last names buried in them all the time; c) it's more common than you think; or d) perhaps it has historical significance & the author found it that way. Doesn't seem very likely, but also possible that (s)he made it up, not realizing it was a "genuine" name.

Because when people come to the United States their name changes in spelling beacause the paople who wrote it down on ship records census and such wrote it as it sounded. alot of families that immigrate also change their names. Some want to Americanize it you know. Also some names are place names. Like the last place they lived in Germany before they immigrated to England for example. Hope this helps a little bit.