Many datasets nowadays contain links between geographic locations and natural language
texts. These links can be geotags, such as geotagged tweets or geotagged Wikipedia …

Abstract We analyze a Big Data set of geo-tagged tweets for a year (Oct. 2013–Oct. 2014) to
understand the regional linguistic variation in the US Prior work on regional linguistic …

This paper examines the association between given and family names and self-ascribed
ethnicity as classified by the 2011 Census of Population for England and Wales. Using …

With most surname research undertaken within the fields of anthropology and population
genetics, geographers have overlooked surnames as a credible data source. In addition to …

This paper estimates the impact of family ancestry on the educational outcomes of a cohort
of Brazilian students. Based on longitudinal data with student identification, we apply an …

Empirical analysis of social mobility is typically framed by outcomes recorded for only a
single, recent generation, ignoring intergenerational preconditions and historical conferment …

A recent workshop entitled “The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic
Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods” was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by …

ABSTRACT We collected 92,832 user-contributed and publicly available family trees from
rootsweb. com, including 250 million individuals who were born in North America and …

At the core of geographic information science (GIScience) lie enduring organising principles
and concepts that have been developed using research methods that are robust …

We develop bespoke geospatial routines to typify 88,457 surnames by their likely ancestral
geographic origins within Great Britain. Linking this taxonomy to both historic and …