Book of family names

Your family s photo book is an opportunity to bring your memories home and highlight your favorite people. Pennsylvania had the highest population of book families in 1840. When it comes to creating the perfect photo book for your family, set the tone by choosing a heartfelt title to represent your photos. Explore the worlds largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

According to song dynasty scholar wang mingqing, the first four surnames listed represent the most important families in the empire at the time. Oxford dictionary of family names in britain and ireland oxford. This site does not support the current version of your web browser. It includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, and those that had more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census. Our beloved board book helps children identify family names and faces, emotions, colors, numbers and more. In different records, book has been spelled boag, boig, book, boack, boge, bogue, boak, bouk, bouck, bogues, bogg, boggs and many more. The most book families were found in the usa in 1880. This was about 61% of all the recorded books in the usa.

Boag, boig, boik, bog, boog, and book, this is a scottish surname is some antiquity. Whether youre using a photo book theme or looking for a title to capture your family sentiment, weve provided a variety of photo book titles to help you. It was convincing and inspired me to start my surname research. This huge new dictionary is the ultimate reference work on family names of the uk, covering english, scottish, welsh, irish, cornish, and immigrant surnames. Pinhole press personalized books for kids offer a variety of books for young children to interact with. Browse surnames from a to z and find out a little bit of your own family history. Containing entries for more than 45000 english, scottish, welsh, irish, cornish, and. Containing entries for more than 45000 english, scottish, welsh, irish, cornish, and immigrant surnames, the oxford dictionary of family. The oxford dictionary of family names in britain and ireland book.

The book surname comes from someone having lived in a place noted for the presence of a ridge that formed a boundary between two distinct areas. Early notables of the book family pre 1700 more information is included under the topic early book notables in all our pdf extended history products and printed products wherever possible. Find your familys average life expectancy, most common occupation, and more. In 1840 there were 43 book families living in pennsylvania. A list of references about personal names or surnames at the local history and genealogy reading room at the library. With thousands of baby names for girls and boys, complete with baby name meanings and origins, disney family is bound to have the perfect name for you. The book showed me a different way to think about researching my family name. The book family name was found in the usa, the uk, canada, and scotland between 1840 and 1920. Surnames by country a selected list of references about. The hundred family surnames is a classic chinese text composed of common chinese surnames.