Keep up with that, Norbergs
From Times Wire Reports
More than 1,200 people named Jones broke the world record for the biggest gathering of people with the same last name, Guinness World Records officials said in Cardiff, Wales.
They more than doubled the size of the previous record-holders: 583 people named Norberg who met in Sweden in 2004.
Jones is the most common surname in Wales and is Britain’s second-most-common, after Smith. The Joneses came from as far away as New Zealand and the United States.
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