If my surname is French, does that mean that I have French ancestry?

no although can understand why think that, surname not short cut way of knowing ancestors or came from.......

surnames word , words come language, not countries, anywhere in world french influenced people ancestry from.........

name french , have researched ancestry on line , person first took name worked in france, french spoken/written language in britain @ time,he british, no french ancestry @ all, took name better business trader, influenced language opened more doors him......... line have researched name origin surnames taken around 13th century , difficult far, in line of prominent people records, business records , political records exist, written in french , latin, took many years translate , find enough prove ancestry line............

my grandma's surname french (dalmau). name supposedly originates limousin, france. mean may have french ancestry somewhere?

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