Finding those names

Where To Look

The County Records Office is the place where you will find your primary evidence - a myriad of documents which will be useful in your research.

The Records Office Guide will explain what you will find there and how it is may be useful.

• National Research Venues

• County Research Venues

Have Some Sympathy With The Transcribers

• Victorian Registrars and the GRO

• Lost Lives: individuals in the census of Sunday April 3rd, 1881

• For a very useful tutorial on reading old handwriting and what you will find on a census return: Techniques for Reading Difficult Writing in a Census

• Deciphering Old Handwriting

• Reading Old Handwriting ~ 1500 to 1800

• Letters of the 17th Century Found in Parish Registers

Clues For Finding Those Elusive Names

• Common Forename Abbreviations

• Naming Patterns

• Latin Names and Genealogical Terms

Forenames

• Nicknames and naming traditions

• Traditional Irish Names

• 13th Century Welsh Names

• 16th Century Welsh Names

• The Hidden Message in Your Name

• Sephardic Naming Patterns

• How popular was that name?

Surnames

• Last Name Meanings ~ covers a multitude of nationalities

• The Internet Surname Database

• The Etymology and History of Surnames

• Surname profiler

• Celtic Origins Irish Surnames ~ Anglicesed and Gaelic versions

• Basic info on the structure of Polish names

• Surnames ~ origins and meanings

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