Dictionary of American family names / [editors] Patrick Hanks and Simon Lenarčič, with Peter McClure.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanks, Patrick, editor.

Lenarčič, Simon, editor.

McClure, Peter (Historian), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--United States--Dictionaries.

Names, Personal.

United States.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Physical Description:

5 volumes (clxxx, 3,633 pages) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This revised and expanded second edition of the Dictionary of American Family Names has been nearly eight years in the making. Thanks in large measure to the access that the Internet now gives us to vast quantities of data, scholarly reference works, and historical documents, it has been possible to extend the scope of the dictionary in a systematic fashion in order to reflect more accurately both the diversity of American family names and their true origins"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Volume 1. Aaberg-Chumbley

volume 2. Chumley-Harbold

volume 3. Harbolt-McCubbin

volume 4.McCubbins-Schacht

volume 5. Schacter-Zywicki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Dictionary of American family names

ISBN:

9780197575581

0197575587

9780197575598

0197575595

9780197575604

0197575609

9780197575611

0197575617

9780197648865

019764886X

9780190245115

0190245115

OCLC:

1304815328

Publisher Number:

99992953549