Looks as though I'm already a member of that site though I don't know why, but anyway I have said I forgot my password and will be sent a link to change it. Hope that doesn't mean I'll be receiving endless junky emails.
I doubt Ancestry will be able to tell me much of interest, quite honestly.
Later: I logged in. As I thought, nothing much. I knew the meaning of my surname already. In order to search for anyone you have to pay and much as I enjoy spending money, I'm not sufficiently interested to dole out cash to these people.
I'm probably the wrong person to even be looking at this, I know some are really into family trees and all that but I can't see the point. Maybe it is something to do with me being an adopted child, I don't know.
However: my married name: Occupational name for a bird-catcher. Well, my husband caught a nice 'bird' once, early nineteen seventies!
My birth name (very common): English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brun or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname. Brun- was also a Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brun as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brungar, Brunwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn. As an American family name, it has absorbed numerous surnames from other languages with the same meaning.
Can't find anything for the surname I grew up with (parents' surname)! It is a very unusual name and my son uses it professionally (which I object to, that's a different story). I can research occupations and all that on Ancestry but no info on origin of name.
Over to others I think -
