The atlas
The geographic spine.
Four nations across the British Isles, 100 tiles, 201 families. Every surname in the catalogue is anchored to the land it came from — pick a country to enter the map.
British Isles
Scotland, England, Wales & Ireland together
Every family page ties a name to ground — regions, tiles, coasts. This map is the same archipelago in one frame: national outlines plus internal atlas boundaries so you can see where each country sits before you open its chapter.
England
England
The shires and the smoke — Anglo-Saxon tun-names, Norman feudal lines, London's melting pot, and the great post-Conquest surname pool of the English-speaking world.
- Families
- 97
- regions
- 9
Éire
Ireland
Four provinces, thirty-two counties — and a diaspora that outnumbers the island by ten to one. The land of the túatha and the chieftains, of the Plantations and the Famine emigrations, where the family name is half the inheritance.
- Families
- 30
- counties
- 32
Alba
Scotland
From the Hebrides to the Borders: Highland clans, Norse-Gaelic earldoms, Lowland riding families and the great Glasgow-Edinburgh surname pool.
- Families
- 52
- tiles
- 42
Cymru
Wales
The land of the cantref and the commote — a kingdom of patronymics, where Owain Glyndŵr was the last to be called Prince of Wales by his own people.
- Families
- 22
- tiles
- 17