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Foote Name Study

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Surnames/tags: Foote Foot Ffoote
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About the Project

The Foote Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Foote name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Foote name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Foote's), by time period (18th Century Foote's), or by topic (Foote DNA, Foote Occupations, Foote Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Foote Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Robert Foote for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Foote Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Foote}}

Foote Name Origin

Abram Foote summed up the knowledge of the origin of the Foote surname in 1907: “There is a tradition that our ancestors in England lived at the foot of a mountain at the time when surnames were adopted, and they called them Foote. The name was sometimes spelled Fotte, or Foot.” Foote, Abram, Foote Family . . , Marble City Press, Rutland, Vermont, 1907. Vol. 1, p. 5. Another possibility, seldom discussed, is that the first Foote took the name because of some physical attribute related to the anatomical part (for example the surname Armstrong probably relates to a progenitor with a strong arm). The conjecture is that the nickname Foote was used because a person had unusually large foot or a deformity of the foot. Foote is the Old English spelling of the modern word foot. Even older spellings were fot, and Ffoote.


Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants





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