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SURNAMES versus PLACE NAMES
In doing surname research - it can also be interesting and revealing
to spend even a little bit of time as it relates to GEOGRAPHIC places which use the same name as the surname.
For example if you are researching the surname AYAVIRI
you may note it is the name of a community in Peru, South America
and can give you some clues as to the Andean origin of the surname AYAVIRI.
BY NO MEANS do geographic names always have a relationship to the origin of a SURNAME.
but in some cases it does - and it is always interesting to see how or if - such findings are just coincidence or truly related.
GOOGLE EARTH - is a very visual way to use a geographic database
check it out here -looking at AYAVIRI, PERU, SOUTH AMERUICA
https://earth.google.com/web/search/ayaviri/
(you might possibly have to click "Launch Earth")
see if you can find a place where an ancestor of yoru was born and then see how Google Earth Zooms in.
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