De-Anglicisation of Names

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One thing to keep in mind using the profiler is Scots have been migrating south to work for quite some time.

That's certainly true, but nevertheless it is impressive how little people had moved from their ancestral areas by 1881, at least compared to Americans of 2006.

Take a look at the distributions for Campbell, Douglas, Stewart, MacPherson or other Scots names. By far, most of them were still in Scotland, even in 1998.

Or look at Jones, Prichard, Williams, or Reese. Of those 4, only Reese had much of any distribution outside of Wales in 1881, or the counties bordering it in 1998.