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Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,822 Send Message	DazedConfused	Report	6 Feb 2013 15:17
	Although the surname Jakes may have come from France there is also another route it has come through A Jakes or Jakesman - the man who took the night waste away. A Jakes was an alternate name for a loo.
	Researching: We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!
Member Since: November 2008 Posts: 39,699 Send Message	PatinCyprus	Report	6 Feb 2013 14:10
	Ancestry only USA at the moment.
	Researching: Lloyd,Paddock,Cooper,Morris,Rigby West Midlands Salop Worc
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 3,038 Send Message	Annina	Report	6 Feb 2013 13:55
Member Since: March 2009 Posts: 3,038 Send Message	Hi Geoffrey,I believe that Ancestry organise one,it isn't cheap though.
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 18 Send Message	Geoffrey	Report	5 Feb 2013 03:34
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 18 Send Message	Can Any of you good folk recomend a Good service ,as i wish to know about my bloodline. Ideally where my ancestors may have come from, i have been advised as my Sir name was Jakes in Cambridge 1830s St Neots,Gamlingay it was probably anglisized.1800s North West Durham became Jacques. Thanks Fellow Mongrels Geoff Jacques :-)