What we know about the Smith Family

What we know about the Smith Family: "What does the Smith name mean?
Last Name: Smith
English: occupational name for a worker in metal, from Middle English
smith (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smitan 'to strike,
hammer'). Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which
specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this
term and its equivalents were perhaps the most widespread of all
occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not
only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles,
but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor.
This is the most frequent of all American surnames; it has also
absorbed, by assimilation and translation, cognates and equivalents
from many other languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988). "