| S ince 1971, our professional researchers have been compiling a vast library of surname histories. New resources are continually being added to our library, and our historians continue to develop new histories and update existing histories. The source material used for our histories has been chosen for its reliability and authenticity. Exaggerated or fictional information has been excluded from the scrolls and any information that can be attributed to legend or folklore is clearly stated as such. In general, events and people are only cited if supporting evidence is available.
The following bibliography is a sample of some of our frequently used sources. Sources are listed by the main nationality for which they are used; however, many books apply to more than one area of research.
England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales
A Constitutional History of Modern England
Age of Conquest - Wales
Agrarian History of England and Wales
A Heraldic Alphabet
An Ordinary of Arms - Scotland
Assize Rolls
Bede's Histories
Benet's Readers Encyclopedia
Book of Kells
Book of Ulster Surnames
Brights of Suffolk
Burke's Commoners, Landed Gentry, Peerage
Cabinet of Irish Literature,1-111
Catholic Directory for Scotland
Calendarium Inquistionum Post Mortem Sueddeutsche Familiennamen
Clans Septs and Reg.s of the Scottish Highlands
Court Records
Roll of the Battel Abbey
Scotch-Irish l-ll
Scots Heraldry, Innes
Scots Kith and Kin
Scottish Clan and Family Names
Scottish Family Histories
Surname dictionaries by Bardsley,Reaney,Black, Hanks and Hodges
Tartans of the Clans and families of Scotland
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Celts Families of the South of Bonne Bay
The High Kings
The Pictish Chronicle
The Surnames of Ireland, MacLysaght
The Wace Poem
Various Passenger Lists
Welsh Surnames, Morgan
FRANCE
Ancien Regime
Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana 1699 - 1732
Coming of the French Revolution, The
Complement au Dictionaire Genealogique Tanguay
Dictionary of Canadian Biographies
Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais
French Canadians l-ll
Genealogie des Familles de Terrebonne
Genealogies des Familles de Saint-Simon, 1600-1900
Huguenot Ancestry
La France Moderne-Grand Dictionnaire Genealogique
La Noblesse aux Etats de Bourgogne de 1350 a 1789
Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec
Le livre d'or du Lyonnais
Les Noms de Famille de France, Albert Dauzat
Les Vieux Noms de France, Puymege
Nobiliare de France
Nos Origines en France
Nouvelle Biographie General 1850-1860
Oxford Companion to French Literature
Who's Who Quebec and its Historians
Repertoire des Mariages de L'll D'Orleans, 1500-1900
Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV
The French Canadians 1760 - 1967
Who's Who in France
SPAIN/LATIN AMERICA
Apuntes de Nobiliaria y Nociones de Genealogia y Heraldica
Elenco de Grandezas
Encyclopedia of Latin America
Nobiliario Espanol, Atienza
Oxford companion to Spanish Literature
Oxford Companion to Sports and Games South America, Central America and the Caribbean
Who's Who among Hispanic Americans
Y Titulos Nobiliarios Espanoles
GERMANY
Abhandlungen zur Namenforschung
Bayerisch Stammenbuch von den alten abgestorbenen Fuerton
Deutsches Namenlexikon, Bahlow
Die lippischen Familiennamen
Die lippischen Familiennamen
Familiennamen der Ostschweiz
Familiennamen im badischen Oberland
Familiennamen in Ostfalen
Familiennamen in Tirol
Faenkische Familiennamen
Grosses Wappen Bilder Lexicon
Habsburg Monarchy
Kneschke, Deutsches Adeis Lexicon I-IX
Mecklenburgisches Namenbü chlein, Bahlow
Mittelhochdeutshes Namenbuch nach schlesischen Quellen, Bahlow
Nebst Tarneller, Tirolen Familiennamen
Niederdeutsche Familiennamen
Oxford Companion to German Literature
Reitstap's Armorials
Scwabische Geschiechisnamen, Kapff
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index
CANADA
Canadian Almanac and Directory
Canadian Heraldry
Carleton Saga
Census Records for the 19th Century
Colombo's Canadian Quotations
Cornwall - From Royal Township to Industrial City (Ontario)
Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation, Whyte
Families of the South of Bonne Bay
Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland
Loyalists in Ontario, Reid
Old United Empire Loyalists Lists
Scottish Tradition in Canada
Who's Who in Canada
Other Nationalities
Americans of Royal Descent
Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists
Boltons American Armory
Debretts Texas Peerage
Fatal Shore, Hughes
Irish Emigrant Experience in Australia
Library of Congress American and English Genealogies
Various American Who's Who
Russian Heraldry and Nobility
This is not a complete list of the bibliographic sources that we have at our disposal, but hopefully it demonstrates the vast source of information that we use to craft each family surname history. |