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    How to start a ONE-NAME STUDY

    Feb 11, 2020 5 minutes

    Setting the scene

    For most people, starting a surname study or one-name study stems from their own ancestry – a family name that piques your curiosity. It is either an unusual surname, perhaps a ‘foreign’ one, or one where there is a brick wall, where focusing on the surname is an opportunity to attempt to dismantle that obstacle.

    I have written previously in Family Tree about my own Orlando study. This is an example of a name that comes under the ‘foreign’ label, because it is Italian, and therefore likely to be a small study, at least in England. My Orlando study started in 1988, when there were no online resources and gathering information was not as ‘easy’ as it is now.

    Nevertheless over time, my study has grown to be anything but small – by conducting surname research over a

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