Content
Welcome
1m 52s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 22s
Introduction
10m 4s
When?
20m 41s
Administrative Summaries
13m 51s
Why Then?
11m 50s
Announcements / prizes
4m 6s
Questions / answers
6m 55s
About this webinar
The use of surnames dates back only to the late Middle Ages, around the 14th century. Almost all 9th and 10th century records show only one name for individuals. A pattern began to emerge in the late 12th century with regard to references to manors, estates and monasteries. This presentation will show, through examples from many types of documents produced during the medieval period, how the Little Ice Age climatic downturn impacted living conditions and imposed what would have been a major impetus to identify people. The use of a surname became the favoured and logical method to do so.
About the speaker
Wayne Shepheard has pursued family history research for several decades, on his own behalf and for others, exploring families in North America, Europe and the United Kingdom. He is active in expanding...
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Comments (75)
Great ! Fantastic ! Thanks a lot.
Wayne is a very good speaker and his topics always lead to soooo many rabbit holes (not a bad thing!)
Very well presented,and quite interesting. Ive now listened to about 5 seminars and I noticed something which is a key learning, There is no description of who what region/country would be the emphasis. I was hoping for a broader coverage area to help with my search which happens to be in Eastern Europe not UK focused, Nonetheless I found it interesting and informative and certainly was far from a waste of my time. Thankful to be able to join this very good seinars.
Never conceived there was a connection between the rise of surnames and climate - fascinating!
Interesting information that I hadn't really thought about before. I don't have much research that early.
This was an amazing and enlightening webinar. I had no idea that all these 13th and 14th century records were available online. Wayne is a master of medieval research. I will definitely investigate these links.
Very interesting information
Excellent. Love his articles in UK FamilyTree abt the little ice age, etc.