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Virion		2002-06-29 11:11:10 PM

Mine was a screw up at the immigration centers in New York in the 30's.

Eeek		2002-06-29 11:11:16 PM

My last name means 'chubby.'

Ghettoceleb		2002-06-29 11:11:20 PM

No.

MightySausage		2002-06-29 11:11:56 PM

Boo paying money is the devil. I already knew I was Irish.

sugarush		2002-06-29 11:12:42 PM

this website sucks

Ghettoceleb		2002-06-29 11:12:50 PM

Present day famous bearers of your name.

I AM the most famous person bearing my last name.

So sad.

randomBob		2002-06-29 11:13:49 PM

I know the origins of my last name. Hi mom. Hi dad.

Virion		2002-06-29 11:14:33 PM

Also, I know my coat of arms and this is not it, the proper coat does not even share a similar image.

utter_bastard		2002-06-29 11:14:38 PM

What utter shiat. They have the origins of my last name all wrong. My name is Nordic and did not originate in England ever.

Outlaw_Rudy		2002-06-29 11:14:43 PM

it'd be a bit more useful if it could tell ya somethin ya don't know already. I know my last name is spanish........

tek		2002-06-29 11:14:45 PM

I already know that I'm Irish... dont need to pay for that.

boooo

code_monkey		2002-06-29 11:15:32 PM

This link was probably the submitted by the owner of that site, and was simply pimping for new customers.

nemo_special		2002-06-29 11:15:36 PM

my last name is johnson this information must be correct

3horn		2002-06-29 11:15:50 PM

Yeah, this is a scam, with all of the resources on the web, you don't need to pay these assclowns to make it up for you.

3Horn

Grey Fox		2002-06-29 11:16:31 PM

French royalty?

Well, duh.

Scrotar		2002-06-29 11:17:05 PM

Is someone telling us to click on the banner ads more often?

Sparx		2002-06-29 11:17:57 PM

Free ads on Fark? Why was I not informed?

tek		2002-06-29 11:18:12 PM

What utter shiat. They have the origins of my last name all wrong....

What!.. Lemme guess, the next thing your gonna tell me is that everything on the net isn't true :(

WarWolf		2002-06-29 11:18:17 PM

I thought the site was crap also, but they did describe the correct Coat of Arms for my family name...after I switched it from English to German.

My grandfather a long time ago spent a lot of money tracking all this stuff down...of course I never paid attention to any of it, except for the Coat of Arms.

DeathSquadronPilot		2002-06-29 11:18:35 PM

Apparently if my last name was 'Cock', I might have English or Dutch ancestry.

barneyfifesbullet		2002-06-29 11:19:06 PM

According to our research, the origin of the name is Scottish and the Coat of Arms contains Red with a silver cross and a rose at the top. The Crest is a rooster.

They've come to catch the rooster...yeah...

LudditeAndroid		2002-06-29 11:19:20 PM

My last name is the german word for prostitute.

Sometimes it's best not to learn too much about your ancestors.

CIA Mole		2002-06-29 11:19:48 PM

This site got my 'coat-of-arms' all wrong, identified my familiy as Irish when it was cleary English, and then asked me to order their crap.

No thanks.

BaShildy		2002-06-29 11:20:04 PM

The Crest is Description not available: Very interesting!
They got the Irish part ( ooh wow Shea is tough to trace )right though.

Would you like our FREE email newsletter called:
"Tracing your Family Tree"

No, but admin@goatse_cx does!

Curious		2002-06-29 11:22:22 PM

this is the internet version of an old scam. their accuracy is generally way off and for 19.95 i can guarentee that "If your last name is one of the rare few with a historic Coat of Arms associated with it" means you have one. at least when these came in snail mail it did.

Virion		2002-06-29 11:22:22 PM

At least they got the "Italian" part right, but they have the wrong region and city. My grandfather was given a full crest and history for his birthday one year, so I know they farked it up.

barneyfifesbullet		2002-06-29 11:22:56 PM

You May Be Owed Unclaimed Money

Dammit, I knew it.

DaLinuxNut		2002-06-29 11:24:23 PM

Yeah, I'll pay to know that my last name has probably been fubar'ed on Ellis Island.

TexacoChainsawMassacre		2002-06-29 11:24:53 PM

THIS IS ALMOST AS MUCH FUN AS PUBLIC EXECUTIONS!
my name means "big-weinered"
sincerely, Mayer Oscar

Grey Fox		2002-06-29 11:25:55 PM

I DO know that one of my ancestors was shot in the back for deserting in the Civil War. If he had remembered his French ancestry, he would've simply surrendered.

chug		2002-06-29 11:26:22 PM

Yep...popups AND ads. Wonderful. I'll put together all my commercial sites and submit them, too. I'll have to remember that countdown clock...it expires in only 33 minutes, you know.

milliken		2002-06-29 11:27:06 PM

lets see.. last name: smith first name: john

scraping-fetus-off-the-wheel		2002-06-29 11:27:16 PM

I was born a poor black child.

bri		2002-06-29 11:27:59 PM

they can't even tell my last name that ends with a 'O' is italian. Jeebus Crust.

SacMan		2002-06-29 11:28:07 PM

FARK!

I just paid 19.95 to find out I am owed 19.95.

Transactoid		2002-06-29 11:28:36 PM

The origin of my last name is the alphabet.

Steveroni with Cheeseroni		2002-06-29 11:28:44 PM

I know for a fact that my last name was blown by the guys at Ellis Island in the 30's when Grandpa Harry came over from Germany -- married to a Pol., had to get the hell out of there.

Still though, this site somehow knew that it was a Scottish name, that I was owed unclaimed money, like pop-ups, and have a coat of arms.

Go figure.

kibo		2002-06-29 11:29:11 PM

Sorry, we do not have the name fark in our database.

Gawgan		2002-06-29 11:30:28 PM

Wow i alrdy knew my last name of Dunn was Irish..

Stupid farks got the crest wrong too

DOOM		2002-06-29 11:30:52 PM

Cool...my family motto is "In Defiance!"

That just rocks!

Grand Fromage		2002-06-29 11:31:03 PM

Yay! Every single piece of information is wrong! Well... they got the continent right.

Steveroni with Cheeseroni		2002-06-29 11:31:06 PM

No results for "Goat," but "Sex," on the other hand...

We have written an 1800-word history on Sex. A small excerpt from this history:

Spelling variations include: Saxton, Saxon, Sefton, Sephton, Septon, Sexton, and others.
First found in in Lancashire where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Charles Saxon settled in New York in 1823; Sir Charles Saxton settled in Charleston S.C., aged 50 in 1820; Giles Saxton settled in Salem Mass. in 1630; Thomas Saxton settled in Boston in 1635; Denis, Henry, Joh and others.

IrishEyes		2002-06-29 11:31:13 PM

Hmph! They don't even have my name in their database for them to misinform me about.

whydontyoucryaboutit		2002-06-29 11:31:58 PM

Hmmm....if i don't like who i decended from, can i sue that website for mental angush?

farkwicket		2002-06-29 11:33:28 PM

bannerservers.com
findcash.com

Wow! Not one, but TWO new worthless domains to add to my firewall's killfile! Thank you, Mr. Anonymous Submitter!

Grand Fromage		2002-06-29 11:33:30 PM

Stalin is from Belgium, according to these farks. His real last name has no matches, either.

Devotchka		2002-06-29 11:34:07 PM

My last name apparently means:

This should have been a plug

and

They're wrong anyway. My last name is Russian, not German. Way to go, jerks.

mustion		2002-06-29 11:35:41 PM

Isn't this what the classified section is for?

panndder		2002-06-29 11:36:41 PM

my grandpa ran away from home and renamed himself, therefor, I don't need to find out there!! because it will probably be crap from people i am not bloodly related to!

Mercurius		2002-06-29 11:37:41 PM

Utter_bastard, I know how you feel. Filipino as I am, I have a Scandinavian last name because of someone on my father's side, and these pricks are trying to tell me I'm of French exctraction! shiat, what would my coat of arms be, a shield with a white flag on it?

Also, anyone with Latin experience know what "Malo mori quam foedari" means?

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