family history project tracing auty and ford surnames from australia back to 
england, scotland, france, guernsey [huguenots, jews] scandinavia [vikings, 
barbarians] ireland, germany, with kings [mercia, wessex, leinster, denmark, norway, 
sweden, meroving, caroling, angevins, plantagenets, huntingdon, balliol, canmore, brus
[bruce], anjou, capet, valois, spain, portugal], queens [castile & leon, swabia, 
hungary] emperors/resses [jerusalem, constantinople, holy roman], earls [essex, 
gloucester, norfolk, arundel, warwick, leicester, northumberland, pembroke 
hereford] dukes n duchesses [normandy, britanny, montferrat] and lumping dirt 
sod farmers [cheshire, hertfordshire, yorkshire, norfolk] and criminals, first 
fleeters, first n.s.w marrieds, founders of port melbourne, artists, diarists, 
musicians, mathematicians, napoleonic heroes and vagabonds!