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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Surname Wordle

Last July it became popular to create wordles from the words on your blog. That is, create a graphic representation of the words, so that the more often the word was used, the larger it appeared in the graphic.

Wordle.net allows you to input text instead of a URL, so I'm sure some geneablogger back then thought of exporting the surnames in their database, but that idea occurred to me last night.
In my database software, iFamilyForLeopard, I selected 'Index' under the People menu, and selected the option to generate a CSV file. I was then provided a list of data names, and I selected only 'family name'. The excel sheet that was generated was one long column that was easy to copy and paste into the wordle.net text box.

And this was the result:

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This image shows some of the more common collateral surnames in my database that my surname entry doesn't include.

1 comment:

  1. Abba-DadMarch 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    LOL, I clicked a link and came to your site and thought it was mine. I didn't recognize any of the posts and was just sitting here scratching my head.

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