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Sims, Clifford Stanley. The Origin and Significant of Scottish Surnames. Avenel Books: New York, 1969.A small book of Scottish names. Very few dates. Not very useful. Not recommended unless you can’t findsomething better.Smith, Eldon. Personal Names, A Bibliography. The New York Public Library: New York, 1952. Not abook on names, but an annotated bibliography of every book and article he could track down. The book is crossreferenced by a number of subjects, including country. If you are looking to document a name and know whatculture it comes from, this book could tell you where to find the documentation. Recommended for peopleseriously interested in names and naming practices.Socin, Adolf. Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch. Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung: Hildesheim, 1966. Thisbook is written in German, and is on German first and last names. It does however, have an index. All nameshave dates; all are from our period. Highly recommended.Stokes, H. G. English Place Names. B. T. Batsford, Ltd.: New York, 1948. An excellent book, whichcontains dates, for anyone wanting an English locative name. Recommended.Strom, Hilmer. Old English Names in Bede’s History. Williams & Norgate, Ltd: London, 1939. A goodbook on old English names with plenty of dates. Very useful for someone who wants to understand the namingpractices of the time. Recommended.Unbegaun, B.O. Russian Surnames. Clarendon Press; Oxford, 1972. This excellent book on RussianSurnames is full of dates and information as to how Russian surnames are formed. It is broken out by type, butthere is a full index in the back. Highly recommended.Unknown. Names for the Cornish. Cornwall: undated. A listing of 300 Cornish first names, with informationas to where the name comes from, as well as some dates. Warning, some of the first names listed here are notsuitable for SCA use, as they are names from legends. Recommended, but use with care.United States Department of Justice. Foreign Versions & Diminutives of English Names. US GovernmentPrinting Office; Washington, DC, 1973. An alphabetical listing of names with the equivalent in 17 otherlanguages. The big drawback to this book is that there are no dates or documentation attached to any of thenames. It is simply a listing of names. Still, if can be used as a starting point for research. If used, it should beused with extreme caution. It is not by itself, a source of documentation.White, G. Pawley. Cornish Surnames. Dyllansow Truran: Cornwall, 1981. An alphabetical listing ofcommon Cornish surnames, with some dates. Recommended.Withycombe, E.G. Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names. Oxford University Press: New York, 1977. Ifyou can get only one name book this is the one to get. It gives dates, variant spellings and lots of usefulinformation on names. Its one disadvantage for SCA heralds is that it only covers names from England. Istrongly urge all heralds to try to acquire a copy of this, even if they get no other name books. It is available inpaperback, and is as of Summer 1989, in print. Highly recommended.Woolf, Henry Bosley. The Old Germanic Principles of Name-Giving. The John Hopkins Press; Baltimore,1939. This book is a study of names and naming practices among the Old Germanic tribes. It is more detailedand technical than most people will need. It does however have dates, and if your local library has it, it is worthusing. However, it is not a book on German names. Rather it deals with Anglo-Saxon names. Recommended ifnone of the better books on Anglo-Saxon names are available.Woulfe, Patrick. Irish Names for Children. Gill and MacMillan: Dublin, 1967. This book’s one flaw is thelack of dates. This can sometimes be remedied by looking up the Irish name in the back, finding the Englishequivalent, and seeing if the Irish name is listed under the English one in Withycombe’s Oxford Dictionary ofChristian Names. This book is recommended only when a better book on Irish names is not available.Yonge, Charlotte M. History of Christian Names. Gale Research Company: Detroit, 1968. UnlikeWithycombe’s Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names, this book covers names from most cultures. However, itdoesn’t always give dates, so it is not as useful as Withycombe. However, Yonge can often be used to startresearching in. By finding a first name in Yonge, determining the culture, then looking up the name in namebooks specific to that language/culture can often be done. Recommended, but use with care.Originally published in The Atlantian Herald’s Handbook.Middle Kingdom Pursuivants Handbook 1172nd Edition - 2002