Article S2TW A world map of your surname's prevalence

A world map of your surname's prevalence

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Rob Beschizza
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Forebears.io charts the worldwide prevalence of your surname and offers interesting stats on its distribution. [via]

Pictured above is "Beschizza," which originates in northern Italy (allegedly a locally-assimilated Roma name, it has splendid connotations in German of crappiness and drunkenness, a la "shitfaced" or, more literally, "beshitted") but everyone went to Brazil and England about a century ago.2zzIU4svUYw

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