A long time ago someone pointed me to a website that could generate a map with the number of people sharing your last name and the places where they live in Belgium. This website was familienaam.be and although I liked the website a lot, it was kind of a pity that you couldn't see the exact locations where these people with the same name as yourself where living (becaus of the low resolution and the lack of placenames on the maps).

The occurence of the name Marynissen in Belgium

The occurence of the name Lambrechts in the Netherlands

To overcome this problem and in order to bring a little interactivity into Merkador, I decided to bring familienaam.be to Google Earth. In the same move I did the same with familienaam.nl, which shows you the occurrence of a surname for the Dutch territory. With the search boxes below, you can see where and how many times your surname occurs in Belgium and the Netherlands. Keep in mind that the used statistics date from 1998 for Belgium and from 1993 for the Netherlands.

Tip: make sure the 'Borders and labels' layer is checked in the Google Earth side bar. If the layer is checked, the placenames appaer when you zoom in.