Hispanic surnames and family history / Lyman D. Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Lyman De.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--Spanish.

Names, Personal.

Hispanic Americans--Genealogy--Bibliography.

Hispanic Americans.

Latin America--Genealogy--Bibliography.

Latin America.

Genealogy.

Hispanic Americans--Genealogy.

Genre:

bibliographies.

Family histories.

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

349 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, MD : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1996.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Hispanic surnames : Demographics: twentieth-century development of Hispanic surnames ; The history of surnames ; Surnames and heraldry ; One thousand most common surnames ; IGHL's Hispanic surname study

1500 surnames: alphabetical listing

Major research sources for Hispanic research

Spanish surnames for which there exist histories or historical sketches in the United States and Latin America

Bibliography of family histories in the United States and Latin America

Appendix 1 : Spanish personal names

Appendix 2 : 1980 census list of Spanish surnames

Appendix 3 : Garcia Carraffa's Enciclopedia heráldica y genealógica

Appendix 4 : Julio de Atienza's Nobiliario Español: diccionario heráldico de apellidos Españoles y de títulos nobiliarios

Appendix 5 : Luis Vilar y Pascual's Diccionario histórico, genealógico y heráldico de las familias ilustres de la monarquía Española.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Platt, Lyman De. Hispanic surnames and family history.

ISBN:

080631480X

9780806314808

OCLC:

34147523

Publisher Number:

9780806314808 90000