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British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning
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This reference work takes all of Great Britain as its subject, and seeks to identify and explain British surnames in great part according to their origin and use. The majority of the work is an alphabetical listing of British names with their origin or meaning ...
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Concerning Some Scottish Surnames
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The attempt to define the meaning, origin, and tradition of Scottish surnames has long been a popular pursuit. During the 19th century, romantic writers tended to define surnames by reference to family tradition or to the phonetic meaning of parts or all of a name. Innes, however, held to a territorial origin ...
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Family Names and Their Story
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Written by S. Baring-Gould, and publish in 1910, this reference work still provides invaluable information, not only for Scottish, but for English surname origins as well.
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Family Photographs and How to Date Them
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For those engaged in family research there is nothing more frustrating that an early photograph without any label to help identify the subject or the setting. But there are always visual clues, and the strongest of these come from what our ancestors are wearing ...
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Genealogy and Surnames, with Some Heraldic and Biographical Notes
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Written by William Anderson in 1865, to this day, this is still an invaluable study of Scottish names and their origins, and as such it surveys an astonishingly broad array of names and how they came about ...
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Highland Personal Names
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This is a collection of articles which first appeared in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, all of which discuss some aspect of Highland traditions regarding given names ...
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Personal and Family Names
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This extended study of personal and family names provides an account of the origin and meaning of literally thousands of names used or found throughout the British Isles. It begins with chapters on the origin and formation of words, then moves on to personal names, Biblical names, birth names, names of women ...
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Scottish Clans and Tartans
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Illustrated guide to Scotland's clans and tartans. Each entry covers the origins of the clan, the location and the renowned clansmen.
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Scottish Surnames
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For everyone wishing to trace their Scottish roots, this handy and comprehensive volume to over 1000 surnames is the ideal guide to the variety of names found in Scotland ...
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Some Anglicised Surnames in Ireland
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This 64 page book, was originally published 1923. The primary purpose of this work is to provide an alphabetical guide to English names used in Ireland which have been altered or anglicized from their Gaelic original. For example, Adams is originally from Mac Adaim, who are described as being a branch from the MacGregors ...
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