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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 +4 more
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Regional surname affinity: a spatial network approach [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVE We investigate surname affinities among areas of modern‐day China, by constructing a spatial network, and making community detection.
Chen, Jiawei +5 more
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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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Forenames and Surnames in Spain in 2004 [PDF]
, 2008 This paper quantifies the corpus of forenames and surnames in Spain in 2004 using the telephone directory. It describes their frequency patterns, major measurable characteristics, and gives some geographical distributions, international comparisons, and ...
Mateos, P, Tucker, DK
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Large-scale diversity estimation through surname origin inference [PDF]
, 2018 The study of surnames as both linguistic and geographical markers of the past has proven valuable in several research fields spanning from biology and genetics to demography and social mobility.
Barth F +12 more
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Genealogy, 2020 DNA analysis has enabled a much deeper interrogation of our surnames, Keesing and Fitzpatrick, than was possible via traditional genealogical research. This can inform us regarding the potential ‘hidden’ complexities of some surnames. Through
Esther Fitzpatrick, Mike Fitzpatrick
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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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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 Vinnik
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Toponīmiskas izcelsmes uzvārdi Latvijā: sastatāmais aspekts
Baltistica, 2011 LATVIAN SURNAMES OF TOPONYMIC ORIGIN: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSISSummaryThis article is devoted to the question of the origin of Latvian surnames in comparison with personal names in the neighbouring languages – Estonian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian,
Pauls Balodis
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A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and their potential in population studies [PDF]
, 2007 Several approaches have been proposed to classify populations into ethnic groups using people's names, as an alternative to ethnicity self-identification information when this is not available.
Mateos, P
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