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A useful reference for historians, journalists, genealogists and anyone interested in tracing their family history.

Alphabetical listing of Irish surnames, with Irish (Gaelic) and other variant spellings, origin and locality of each surname, and prominent persons by the name.

The companion volume to a PBS television series, a compendium of essays, photographs, and illustrations explores the social, cultural, and political history of Irish Americans through contributions by Pete Hamill, Frank McCourt, Peggy Noonan, and others.

A comprehensive analytical work on Hispanic surnames and an extensive bibliography of family histories. This is not a study of surnames or family history in Spain per se. Rather it is a review of the development of Spanish surnames in Latin America and the Hispanic United States, with references to the availability of surname studies in Spain, found in the appendices and in a few cases in the bibliography.

Surnames carry the history of people in a very personal way. In England surnames were mostly established by the end of the fourteenth century - by ordinary people, for ordinary people. Uniquely, surnames describe medieval lives not captured by any other record. They tell us what these people did, where they went, what they noticed and give clues about their culture and memories. This book examines the origins of English surnames, looking at: * occupational...