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A 150-Year Debate over Surnames vs. Patronymics in Iceland
Genealogy, 2023 Iceland stands out in today’s Europe due to the fact that most Icelanders use patronymics rather than surnames. However, a small percentage of Icelanders do have surnames inherited in a fixed form.
Kendra Willson
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Surnames in Adoption: (Re)creating Identities of Belonging
Genealogy, 2023 Names are increasingly recognised in sociology as important routes for understanding family relationships, as well as familial and individual identities. In this article, we use qualitative ‘name story’ data to examine the meanings of surnames for adults
Jane Pilcher, Jan Flaherty
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Annals of Human Biology, 2019 Background: Previous studies on Russian surnames have been based on outdated and inconsistent sources; they also had limited territorial coverage and population samples constrained by Russian ethnicity.
Valeriy Yumaguzin, Maria V Vinnik
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Surnames of Georgian Jews: Historical and Linguistic Aspects
Genealogy, 2023 The article provides an analysis of several aspects of the corpus of surnames used by Jews who lived after the end of the Middle Ages in the territory that today corresponds to the Republic of Georgia.
Alexander Beider
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Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The article discusses the surnames of the Ilek Cossacks — one of the local communities in the Ural Cossack Host. Nowadays, all the surviving settlements of the Ilek Cossacks are located in the southwest of the Orenburg Region, Russia.
Alois I. Nazarov
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Distribution of Locative Surnames in the South-West of France [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The article deals with locative surnames in the South-West of France in terms of their quantitative representation and distribution among other types of surnames derived from first names, professions, nicknames, etc.
Natalia M. Zaika
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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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Rakamaz régi német családnevei
Névtani Értesítő, 2011 Old family names of German origin in Rakamaz Rakamaz today is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary. At the beginning of the 18th century it became almost depopulated.
Lajos Mizser
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A Comparison Of Irish Surnames In The United States With Those Of Eire
Names, 2006 This paper compares contemporary frequency distributions of Irish Surnames in Eire (2001) and the United States (US) (1997), about one hundred years after bulk of Irish emigration to the US, in order to measure changes, if any, in form and frequency of ...
D Kenneth Tucker
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