Saturday, December 7, 2019

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Surname Word-Cloud


Randy Seaver's challenge this week is to make a Surname Christmas Tree. A fun idea--one that I adapted for my own genealogical situation.

There are more than 80 surnames in my Jewish family tree. So I made a word-cloud in the shape of a heart rather than a tree.

Following Randy's how-to explanation, I first listed the names in a Word document and then sorted alphabetically, on the theory that a word-cloud generator would randomly assign names to different places in the shape.

Next, I selected one of the free word-cloud generation sites, chose the color theme, chose the shape (a heart, loosely interpreted as you can see), and set the gap between names at 2 spaces.

Then I uploaded my names, looked at the result, and played with a few of the settings (the font, for instance) until I liked the way the whole thing looked.

Finally, I downloaded the word-cloud as a .jpg and here it is!

Thanks, Randy, for this excellent holiday idea.

P.S.: I'm also listing all the surnames here as cousin bait:

ADELMAN
ASH
BARTH
BERGER
BERK
BERKMAN
BIRK
BLAUMAN
BLOCK
BOURSTEIN
BROWNSTEIN
BURK
BURKE
CAPLAN
CASSON
CHAZAN
DIAMOND
EMERMAN
ETSCHEL
EZRATI
FARBER
FARKAS
FESTINGER
GAFFIN
GARFIELD
GELBMAN
GENNIS
GOLDBERG
GOLDMAN
GOODFRIEND
GROSSMAN
GUTFRIED
HARRIS
HARTFIELD
HORWICH
JACOBS
KATZ
KLEIN
KOBLER
KRAUS
KUBA
KUNSTLER
LANG
LEBOWITZ
LETHERMAN
LEVINE
LEVY
LIPSON
LURIA
MAHLER
MANDEL
MANDEL
MARKELL
MARKS
MITAV
PITLER
POMPIONSKY
RETHY
RIGOROFSKY
ROSEN
ROTH
SALKOWITZ
SCHWARTZ
SEGAL
SHUHAM
SIMON
SIMONOWITZ
SMITH
SNYDERMAN
SOLOMON
STEINBERGER
STERN
VINOKUR
VOLK
WAJMAN
WALDMAN
WEIMAN
WEISS
WHITELAW
WIRTSCHAFTER
WOLF
ZUDECK 


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2 comments:

  1. Years ago I made a tree using the Tagxedo word cloud generator. I loved it so much I have used it as my desktop wallpaper since then!!

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