Author : Elsdon Coles Smith
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780806311500
Surnames. We all have them, but whose names were they originally? Whose are they? What do they mean and where do they come from? Elsdon Smith, America's leading authority on names, is the one man who definitely knows, and his book, American Surnames, is designed to answer these questions and more ...
Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2128 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0199771693
Where did your surname come from? Do you know how many people in the United States share it? What does it tell you about your lineage? From the editor of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Surnames comes the most extensive compilation of surnames in America. The result of 10 years of research and 30 consulting editors, this massive undertaking documents 70,000 surnames of Americans across the country. A reference source like no other, it surveys each surname giving its meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames associated with it, and the frequency of each surname and forename. The Dictionary of American Family Names is a fascinating journey throughout the multicultural United States, offering a detailed look at the meaning and frequency of surnames throughout the country. For students studying family genealogy, others interested in finding out more about their own lineage, or lexicographers, the Dictionary is an ideal place to begin research.
Author : Debbie Kennett
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0752483498
Every surname has its own story to tell, and a surname study is a natural complement to family history research. The study of surnames has been revolutionised in the last decade with the increasing availability of online resources, and it is now easier than ever before to explore the history, evolution, distribution and meaning of your family name. The Surnames Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to researching your surname using genealogical methods in conjunction with the latest advances in DNA testing and surname mapping. The book explores the key resources that are used to study a surname and is packed with links to relevant websites giving you everything you need to research your surname in one compact volume.
Author : Patricia Roberts Clark
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0786451696
Scholars have long worked to identify the names of tribes and other groupings in the Americas, a task made difficult by the sheer number of indigenous groups and the many names that have been passed down only through oral tradition. This book is a compendium of tribal names in all their variants--from North, Central and South America--collected from printed sources. Because most of these original sources reproduced words that had been encountered only orally, there is a great deal of variation. Organized alphabetically, this book collates these variations, traces them to the spellings and forms that have become standardized, and supplies see and see also references. Each main entry includes tribal name, the "parent group" or ancestral tribe, original source for the tribal name, and approximate location of the name in the original source material.
Author : Jennifer Moss
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781539033295
A step-by-step guide to finding the perfect name. From the creator of BabyNames.com, the most popular baby names site online. This guide provides fun worksheets and activities to guide you from start to finish in the process of finding the perfect baby name.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Americanisms
ISBN :
Author : Emma Woo Louie
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786438770
The naming practices of Chinese Americans are the focus of this work. Since Chinese immigration began in the mid-19th century, names of immigrants and their descendants have been influenced by both Chinese and American name customs. This detailed study first describes the naming traditions of China, providing a base for understanding how personal names may change in the interaction between cultures. One discovers that surnames are clues to Chinese dialect sounds, that many have been Americanized, that new surnames were created and that, in more recent decades as the Chinese American population has grown, new names practices developed and surnames have proliferated. Included are ideographs to surnames and an overview of their preservation by Americans of Chinese descent.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1616402598
"Replica of the 1921 'revised and enlarged' second edition"--Jacket
Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0192527479
Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313350671
This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife. Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences. The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.
