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Surname Distribution in Galicia
NamesThe study of the geographic distribution of surnames is a useful source of information for probing the structure of populations and their links with history, and language.
Xulio Sousa +2 more
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Distribution of Forenames, Surnames, and Forename–Surname Pairs in Canada
Names, 2002 Using information from the 1996 INFO USA ProCD CanadaPhone, I present graphically frequency distributions of forenames, surnames, and forename-surname pairs in Canada and compare each distribution with the equivalents in the United States. Minor cultural
D. K. Tucker
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Surname distribution in population genetics and in statistical physics
Physics of Life Reviews, 2013 Surnames tend to behave like neutral genes, and their distribution has attracted a growing attention from genetists and physicists. We review the century-long history of surname studies and discuss the most recent developments. Isonymy has been regarded as a tool for the measurement of consanguinity of individuals and populations and has been applied ...
ROSSI, PAOLO
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Barriers to gene flow estimated by surname distribution in Italy
Annals of Human Genetics, 1993 SummarySurname distributions were studied in order to reconstruct human migration patterns. Zones of sharp change in surname frequencies ‐ presumably barriers to gene flow ‐ were detected by the statistical technique of wombling (Barbujani et al. 1989), using data from consanguineous marriages (1910‐64) collected from 280 Italian dioceses which we ...
Zei G. +6 more
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The Distribution of Surnames in Xiantao City through Isonymy [PDF]
Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation ScienceThe population migration in Hubei Province was frequent in history, accompanied by the migration of surnames, so it is important to study their population surnames.
ZHANG Jingjing, ZHU Yan, XIAO Hong
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SURNAMES AS ALLELES: SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SURNAMES IN A PROVINCE OF THE ITALIAN ALPS
Journal of Biosocial Science, 2007 Summary.The present paper seeks to analyse the spatial distribution of surnames in the province of Belluno in the Italian Alps, and describes the internal mobility of the population taking into consideration one of the most important and ancient roads in the area.
CARAVELLO, GIANUMBERTO, TASSO M:
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The fourteenth-century poll tax returns and the study of English surname distribution [PDF]
, 2015 The modern-day distributions of English surnames have been considered in genealogical, historical, and philological research as possible indicators of their origins.
Parkin, D.H., Parkin, Harry
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Surnames and Y-chromosomal markers reveal low relationships in Southern Spain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 A sample of 416 males from western and eastern Andalusia has been jointly analyzed for surnames and Y-chromosome haplogroups and haplotypes. The observed number of different surnames was 222 (353 when the second surname of the Spanish system of naming is
Rosario Calderón +3 more
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The Surname Impossibility Theorem [PDF]
, 2020 The Surname Impossibility Theorem offers solace to anyone who has struggled in the quagmire of choosing a surname for a child. I posit that it is impossible to find a method for giving a child a surname that satisfies the important criteria of being ...
Graham-Squire, Adam, Adam Graham-Squire
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Opera in onomastica, 2023 Introduction. The article emphasizes that the study of surnames in general and surname microsystems in particular is one of the urgent problems of modern Ukrainian onomastic science, which has important theoretical and practical significance not only for linguistics, but also for history, geography, ethnology. The purpose.
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