Family Names and Family History - Softcover

Hey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852855509 ISBN 13: 9781852855505

Publisher: Hambledon Continuum, 2006

Synopsis

Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating 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 the present day. David Hey shows how, when and where families first 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 origin by using national and local records. Family Names and Family History tells anyone interested in tracing their own name how to set about doing so.

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Review:

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

Title mentioned in Who Do You Think You Are?, 2008.

"a scholarly and readable study of the growth of English surnames based on the valuble work of the Names Projects Group at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language. It will appeal to the general redaer and to the student coming to the topic for the first time." Contemporary Review, 01/07/07--Sanford Lakoff

About this edition

• Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1852855509
• ISBN 13: 9781852855505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260