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18th Century PA German Name Spelling Idiosyncrasies

18th Century PA German Naming Customs

18th Century PA German Nicknames

A Dictionary of Period Russian Names

American Names / Declaring Independence

Discusses name changes at Ellis Island. From the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.

American-French Genealogical Society - Surname Variations

Ancestry.com - Hispanic Surnames and Family History, 1996 $

Original source: Platt, Lyman D. Hispanic Names and Family History. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Last Names and Their Meanings

Ancestry.com - Search Reference Materials & Finding Aids Records

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancient Irish Proper Names

An examination of the origin and meaning of some Irish surnames and forenames, taken from John O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation.

BBC - History - What's In a Name Your Link to the Past

Beliebte (und seltene) Vornamen

Popular and rare given names in Germany from the 1890s through present.

beliebte Vornamen: Hitlisten 1890 - 2008

The most popular first names in Germany since 1890.

British and Irish Given Names

This webpage provides a free lesson that explores the historical development of British given names. It also provides links to books and talks that discuss the popularity, spelling variants, diminutives and other factos relating to English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh given names.

British and Irish Surnames

Explore the historical development of surnames in the free lesson on this webpage. Also, explore the problems associated with finding surname variants because of interpretations and misinterpretations of the sounds and letters of British and Irish surnames.

Colonial Naming Patterns

[The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Cornish First Names

Cornish Surnames

Names starting with these old Celtic Cornish words.

Equivalent Czechslovakian, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Russian & Yiddish Foreign Given Names

Equivalent Given Names

A useful list of first, a.k.a. given names, and their version as spelled in many different languages. This is a very comprehensive 114 page fully searchable pdf containing thousands of first names. Languages included are English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and more.