England Naming Customs: Difference between revisions

England Naming Customs (view source)

140 bytes added , 29 September 2012

British Surnames

407,336

edits

@@ Line 30: / Line 30: @@
 Several websites help you map the geography of English surnames. To learn more, see [[Surname Distribution Maps]]. [http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/genmap01.htm GenMap UK] (£) helps you create your own United Kingdom surname distribution maps.<br>
-Projects that study specific surnames are called one-name studies. [[Guild_of_One-Name_Studies|The Guild of One-Name Studies]] is an example of an organization that has identified several thousands such projects.
+Projects that study specific surnames are called one-name studies. [[Guild of One-Name Studies|The Guild of One-Name Studies]] is an example of an organization that has identified several thousands such projects.
+The [http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/ British Surnames] website can help you learn a wide variety of information about English surnames.
 Another aspect of English surnames is pronunciation. [http://archive.org/stream/glossaryofdialec00hopeuoft#page/148/mode/2up "A List of Surnames Pronounced Differently from What the Spelling Suggests" (1883)]<ref>Robert Charles Hope, ''A Glossary of Dialectal Place-nomenclature, To Which is Appended A List of Family Surnames Pronounced Differently from What the Spelling Suggests'' (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1883). Digitised by [http://archive.org/details/glossaryofdialec00hopeuoft Internet Archive] - free.</ref>, available online, identifies some more unusual examples.