Family Names: How Our Surnames Came to AmericaHighlights over 2,800 surnames covering every ethnic group. |
Contents
The Beginnings of Our Rivers of Names | 19 |
The Flood | 27 |
5 | 41 |
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African alphabet ancestors Arabic became become black surnames born British called Carolina census century changed Chinese church cities colonies Czechs descendant Dutch early eastern emigrants England English especially ethnic European Family Names farm farmers father Finnish French German German names Greek H. L. Mencken hill Huguenot hundred Hungarian immigrants Indians instance Ireland Irish Italian Japanese Jewish Jews John Jones Korean labor land language large numbers later Lithuanian lived mainly Maxine Seller means million nation North Norwegian Norwegian American occupational names patronyms Pennsylvania percent perhaps person place names Poland Poles Polish population Portuguese Puerto Rican river Romanian Russian says Scandinavian Scots Scottish settled settlers ship slave Slavic Slavs Smith sometimes South south Slavs southern Spanish spellings story Swiss Thomas thousand tion town Ukrainian Ulster Ulster Scots United variant Welsh West white surnames William women World York