The surname is one of the elements that identify a person and her belonging to a certain genus. Knowing your roots, the origin of the surname means respecting your family.
Instructions
Step 1
Latin familia in translation means family, but over the centuries it meant not only a community of people united by close kinship, living together and managing, but also slaves, serfs belonging to the masters. Thus, a surname is not only a sign of inherited kinship, but a sign of what genus its carrier belonged to.
Step 2
Probably, each of us at least once thought about how to find out about the origin of our surname. Of course, the most reliable way to find out the secret of your last name is by compiling a genealogical tree, learning the history of your family. However, this is a rather expensive task, which also requires a lot of effort and time.
Step 3
I would like to warn against attempts to use the services of numerous paid services widely available on the Internet. For a small fee, they offer to make up your family tree, this is an open deception.
Step 4
It is much easier to analyze the most common ways of forming surnames and draw conclusions about the origin of your own surname.
Step 5
So, here are the ways to form surnames:
1. from the person's appearance: Ryzhov, Krivoshein;
2. on personal qualities: Bystrov, Smirnov;
3. from an event in a person's life: Naydenyshev;
4. from the profession of a person: Goncharov, Kuznetsov;
5. from the geographical names, as a rule, the names of the place of residence: Vyazemsky, Shuisky, Ozerov;
6. from the name of the historical event: Nevsky;
7. from the name of religious holidays: Christmas;
8. from the names: Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov;
9. from the names of animals, birds, plants: Rybin, Smorodin, Medvedev;
10. from the nickname: Krivoshchekov.
