Family Names and Family History

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinationg in its own right. Formed from first names, place names, nicknames and occupations, names allow us to trace the movements of our ancestors from the middle ages to to the present day. David Hey shows how, when and where families firs got their names, and proves that most families stayed close to their places of origin. Settlement patterns and family groupings can be traced back towards their origins by using national and local records. Family Names and Family History tells everyone interested in tracing their own name how to set about doing so.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-06-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781852855505

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David Hey was Emeritus Professor of Local and Family History at the University of Sheffield. His books include How Our Ancestors Lived, The Oxford Guide to Family History, The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History and Family Names and Family History. He was President of the British Agricultural History Society, Chairman of the Local Population Studies Society and consultant editor for The National Archives' family history magazine, Ancestors.David Hey was Emeritus Professor of Local History at Sheffield University and is the author of The Oxford Guide to Family History (1993).

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Book mentioned in The Guardian (Saturday supplement), April 2007

Innehållsförteckning

Illustrations; Preface; I The History of Family Names; 1 Names and History; 2 The Normans; 3 The Origins of English Family Names; 4 The Development of Family Names; Stability and Change; II Tracing Surnames Back in Time; 6 The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 7 Family Names in the Seventeenth Century and Earlier; III Tracing Your Own Name; 8 Steps to Tracing Your Surname; 9 The Most Common Surnames; 10 Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index