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The United States is often referred to as an ethnic “melting pot” due to its diverse cultures and history of immigrants, but there are some regional differences when it comes to surnames. A recent ...

Growing up in the 1980s, Vincent Garcia and his family were the only Garcias he knew, he said. “I can remember when we moved from Queens to Plainview in 1967, my father saying we were one of the only ...

This photo taken Nov. 9, 2010, shows Emily Goodmann, a doctoral student who is doing her dissertation on the history of the telephone book. Ancestry, with the help of the white pages, researched the ...

A Reddit user put together a map of the most common surname in every country. There are a lot of them that overlap. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) has the rest. A Reddit user put together a map of ...

From one end of the country to another, last names reflect the changing demographics across each region of the United States. But where does Massachusetts fit within this national tapestry?