In this lecture I would like to show you.
How can you find someone's name origin.
There are names that are specific to certain regions or countries, which can provide clues about a
person's geographic origin or location.
Now, if you found the person's geographic origin, let's say that the name John Smith is commonly used
in the United States.
That does not mean that this person is living in the United States right now, but it only gives you
an idea that this person is from United States, or his parents were from United States, and he might
or might not be living in the United States right now.
There are many cases in which you only have a first and last name, and finding the person's name origin
might help you to narrow down your search.
So the first website that I would like to show you is called FamilySearch.org.
You'll find the link in the resources of this lecture.
All you have to do is to specify the first and last name.
Now, before we use this website, I would like to tell you that this website has a database of US citizens.
So if you were to search for someone who lives in Turkey, you might not be able to find him on this
website.
And let me show you an example.
For now, I'm just going to search for Rishi Kabra.
So I'm going to say that the first name is Rishi and the last name is Kabra.
And then I'm going to say search.
And as you can see we've got a search result of someone called Rishi Kabra and the source is from a
US public records that are from 1970 to 2009.
We can see where this person lived and his date of birth.
Now we already know that Rishi covered that we are looking for is not from the United States and he
is not a US citizen.
But if you go to last name information you are going to see some guesses.
So let me scroll down.
We can see that the name Cobra is most likely found in India, Hungary and Germany.
And this information based on the database that family tree has.
So it has three people that are from India with the name Cobra and two from Hungary and two from Germany.
So I always like to use more than one website to make sure that the information that I found on the
first website are accurate.
So the second website that I like to use, which I think is more accurate than Family Tree is called
names or.
So I'm just going to add the first and last name and then say Analyze Name.
And then I will solve the captcha.
So as you can see this name is coming from Asia and it is probably from India.
We can see 76% probability.
And we can also see an alternative country.
So if he wasn't from India then he might be from Sri Lanka.
So you want to keep this in mind.
I can also scroll down And see in which countries this name could be.
So we can see that the first option in India, the second one is Sri Lanka, etc..
And we can also see here the probability.
So if he wasn't from India then he has to be from Sri Lanka.
And I think that this website is more accurate than the previous one because it also shows you some
alternative countries.
We can see that we didn't find Germany or Hungary in search results.
So the next time you want to search for a name and then you have identified that this name is coming
from India, for example, you can use the method that I've talked about in the previous lecture.
You can put the name into quotation marks and then say India.
And this will search for the name Rishi Kabra and the search term India, which will show us fewer search
results.
So in this lecture you have learned how can you identify where the name is commonly used and use this
information to narrow down search results when you are searching for the person on search engines.