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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.

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 Name Meanings and Origins | Search Surnames at Ancestry.com

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 Vornamen: Hitlisten 1890 - 2008

The most popular first names in Germany since 1890.

Colonial Naming Patterns

Cornish First Names

Cornish Surnames

Names starting with these old Celtic Cornish words.

Dictionary of Flemish First Names with Translation in Latin and French

Die beliebtesten Vornamen

The most popular boys and girls forenames in Germany for the years 1995 to 1997. In German.

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.

Friesche Naamlijst (Frisian Name List)

A free, downloadable 447-page book of the meaning of Frisian names, both first names and surnames. Written in Dutch, but easily translated when you type the text into Google translate (http://translate.google.com).

Genealogy research: Dutch Names, Frisian Names with English Translations

A list of Dutch/Frisian given names and their English translations from USGenWeb.