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Surnames listed in the 1790 United States census

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13911
Date of Publication
-1980]
Call Number
312 U58s 1790
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
-1980]
Physical Description
44 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Subjects
Names, Personal - United States - Statistics.
Genealogy.
United States - Census, 1790.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
312 U58s 1790
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Author
Jones, George Fenwick,
Date of Publication
c1990.
Call Number
929.4 J77
Responsibility
George F. Jones.
ISBN
0806312718 :
Author
Jones, George Fenwick,
Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
c1990.
Physical Description
268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Names, Personal - United States
Names, Personal
German language
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.4 J77
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Family names : the origins, meanings, mutations, and history of more then 2,800 American names

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8076
Author
Hook, J. N.
Edition
1st Collier Books ed.
Date of Publication
1982,1983.
Call Number
929.4 H781
Responsibility
J.N. Hook.
ISBN
0025521004 (hdbk)
Author
Hook, J. N.
Edition
1st Collier Books ed.
Place of Publication
New York : London
Publisher
Collier Books ; Collier Macmillan,
Date of Publication
1982,1983.
Physical Description
388 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
On cover: Family names : how our surnames came to America.
Subjects
Names, Personal - United States.
Ethnology - United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.4 H781
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Special report on surnames in Ireland : [together with] Varieties and synonymes of surnames and Christian names in Ireland

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8082
Author
Matheson, Robert E.
Date of Publication
1988.
Call Number
929.4 M427
Responsibility
by Sir Robert E. Matheson.
ISBN
0806301872
Author
Matheson, Robert E.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
78, 94 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Reprints of the 1909 and 1901 editions.
Subjects
Names, Personal - Ireland.
Ethnology - Ireland.
Names, Personal - Celtic.
Additional Corporate Author
Ireland. Register General.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.4 M427
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The handbook of American counties, parishes, and independent cities

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13441
Author
Coulet du Gard, René.
Date of Publication
c1981.
Call Number
910.3 C855
Responsibility
by René Coulet du Gard and Dominique Coulet Western.
ISBN
0939586002 (pbk.) :
Author
Coulet du Gard, René.
Place of Publication
[Newark, Del.]
Publisher
Editions des Deux Mondes,
Date of Publication
c1981.
Physical Description
vi, 500 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 457-464.
Subjects
Names, Geographical - United States.
Cities and towns - United States.
Parishes - United States.
United States - History, Local.
Additional Author
Western, Dominique Coulet.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
910.3 C855
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A guide to the spelling and pronunciation of German names

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5470
Author
Johnson, Arta F.
Date of Publication
[c1981]
Call Number
437 J66g
Responsibility
Arta F. Johnson.
Author
Johnson, Arta F.
Place of Publication
[S.l.]
Publisher
A.F. Johnson,
Date of Publication
[c1981]
Physical Description
52 p. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 41-42.
Subjects
German language
Names, German.
Names, Personal
United States - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
437 J66g
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New dictionary of American family names

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9567
Author
Smith, Elsdon Coles,
Date of Publication
1988, c1973.
Call Number
929.4 S646n
Responsibility
Elsdon C. Smith.
ISBN
0517669544
Author
Smith, Elsdon Coles,
Place of Publication
New York : New York, N.Y
Publisher
Gramercy Pub. Co. ; Distributed by Crown Publishers,
Date of Publication
1988, c1973.
Physical Description
xxix, 570 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Names, Personal - United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.4 S646n
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Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18679
Date of Publication
c1998.
Call Number
973.221 C759
Responsibility
edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.
ISBN
0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.
Contents
Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - United States.
Acculturation - United States
Indians of North America
Indians, Treatment of - United States
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Congresses.
Acculturation - United States - Congresses.
Indians of North America - Congresses.
United States - Territorial expansion.
United States - Territorial expansion - Congresses.
Additional Author
Cayton, Andrew R. L.
Teute, Fredrika J.
Additional Corporate Author
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.221 C759
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Swiss surnames : a complete register

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4716
Date of Publication
1995.
Call Number
929.3 S979
Alternate Title
Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz
Noms de famille suisses
Nomi di famiglia svizzeri
Responsibility
edited by Emil & Clothilde Meier...[et al.] of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung.
ISBN
0897252063 (set)
Place of Publication
Camden, Me
Publisher
Picton Press,
Date of Publication
1995.
Physical Description
3 v. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Translation of the third Swiss edition (1989)
"Commonly known as Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz" -- Cover. Original ed. has title Les noms de famille suisses. Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz. I nomi de famiglia svizzeri.
"November 1995."
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
v. 1. A-G -- v. 2. H-Q -- v. 3. R-Z.
Subjects
Names, Personal - Switzerland
Switzerland - Genealogy.
Additional Author
Meier, Emil.
Additional Corporate Author
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.3 S979
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Berks County Genealogical Society index of surnames : second series

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18283
Date of Publication
1985.
Call Number
974.816 B512i
Alternate Title
Index of surnames :
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1985.
Physical Description
117 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Spring 1985."
Library has: v. 1 (1985); v. 2 (1986); v. 3 (1987); v. 4 (1988).
Subjects
Berks County Genealogical Society - Directories.
Names, Personal - Pennsylvania - Berks County - Indexes.
Berks County (Pa.) - Genealogy - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - Berks County - History - Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
Berks County Genealogical Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.816 B512i
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