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About Our Name
According to Select Surnames:
If your surname is Fox, it could be of English, German, or Irish origin. The English name was at first Foxe and then Fox. The German word is Fuchs, often anglicized to Fox. The Irish source is either the Gaelic Sionnach or the Anglo-Norman de Bosque.
In each case, the root is the animal, the fox. Fox must have started out as a nickname. Did it refer to someone of red hair, the color of a fox? Or was it someone considered crafty or cunning, characteristics that are attributed to a fox?
About the Project
The Fox Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Fox 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 Fox 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 Fox's), by time period (18th Century Fox's), or by topic (Fox DNA, Fox Occupations, Fox 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 Fox 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: Bonnie Day for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
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Take a look at our Y-Results pages https://www.familytreedna.com/public/FoxDNA?iframe=yresults We list most distant known Fox ancestor. Take a look. Joe
I found these Fox family in my tree I added them to name study.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fox-19627
Billie