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Books on Surnames

GENERAL:

A DICTIONARY OF SURNAMES  Patrict Hanks & Flavia Hodges  1990 (1988)

DISCOVERING SURNAMES  Freeman, J. W.

PERSONAL AND FAMILY NAMES A POPULAR MONOGRAH ON THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE PRESENT AND FORMER TIMES  Long, Harry Alfred 1988 (1885)

ENGLISH:

ENGLISH ANCESTRAL NAMES THE EVOLUTION OF THE SURNAME FROM MEDIEVAL OCCUPATIONS  Dolan, J. R.  1972

ENGLISH SURNAMES THEIR SOURCES AND SIGNIFICATIONS Bardsley, Charles Wareing  1990 (1898)

THE ORIGINS OF ENGLISH SURNAMES  Reaney, P. H.  1984 (1967)

GERMAN:

DEUTCHES NAMENLEXIKON Bahlow, Hans  1985 (1967)  (in German)

IRISH:

BOOK OF IRISH NAMES, FIRST, FAMILY & PLACE NAMES  Ronan Coghlan, Ida Grehan & P. W. Joyce  1985

OFFICIAL VARIETIES AND SYNONYMES OF SURNAMES AND CHRISTIAN NAMES IN IRELAND FOR THE GUIDANCE OF REGISTRATION OFFICERS AND THE PUBLIC IN SEARCHING THE INDEXES OF BIRTH, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES  Matheson, Robert E  1995 (1901)

SPECIAL REPORT ON SURNAMES IN IRELAND Matheson, Sir Robert E 1988 (1909)

THE SURNAMES OF IRELAND  MacLysaght   1985 (1964)

ISLAMIC, MUSLIN:

BOOK OF MUSLIM NAMES  Qazi, Mahmoud A. 1995

ISLAMIC NAMES Schimmel, Annemarie  1989

MUSLIM NAMES Al-Ja'fari, Fatima Suzan  1977

RUSSIAN:

THE COMPLEAT RUSSIAN NAME BOOK  Tumanova, V. V. N.  1989

SCOTTISH:

THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICATION OF SCOTTISH SURNAMES WITH A VOCABULARY OF CHRISTIAN NAMES  Sims, Clifford Stanley  1959

SCOTTISH SURNAMES  Dorward, David  1995

THE SURNAMES OF SCOTLAND  Black, George F   1993 (1946)

SPANISH:

HISPANIC SURNAMES AND FAMILY HISTORIES   Platt, Lyman D.  1996

WELSH:

WELSH SURNAMES Morgan, T. J. & Morgan, Prys   1983