If you have any French ancestors in your family tree, you may have noticed the unusual double-surname custom. What do these "dit" names mean?
Tracking down relatives is already a complicated and challenging project, having 2 surnames to deal with doesn't help. Especially when the patterns and reasoning for these double names doesn't seem to make alot of sense to the untrained eye.
Find out more about "Dit" names and how to handle them.
Not only may you want to understand the nature of these double names, but how do you organize your relatives who have them?
