| German-American Names (2nd Edition) |  | Author: George F. Jones
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0806314818
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.408431073
EAN: 9780806314815
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Product Description
This is an A-Z dictionary of German-American names with the spellings, meanings, and variants of about 15,000 names. The lengthy introduction discusses the development of German names, name sources, name variations, and some of the special characteristics of German-American names. Here is explained the meanings of names borne today by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects. It also deals with the Americanization of some of these names, explaining the social and historical matters that contributed to the distinctive character of German-American names. And it deals as well with names many of us would never have thought of as German. The vast amount of information on German-American names in this work is unequaled in any other book on this subject. This second edition is fifty pages longer than the previous edition and has several thousand more entries.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very Informative June 20, 2009
Judith Sheppard (Paducah KY)
Lots of great information to support the research I was doing. It aided me in compilation of a family documentary.
What Was The Origin Of My Name? November 23, 2008
Overweight and Proud Of It (Springfield, Illinois USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like everyone else, I fantasized that my distant ancestors were noble lords, wise sages, shrewd merchants and so on. However, I have found that while all of the other German surnamed families with familial links to my German surnamed family have some form of an acknowledged coat of arms, my German surname apparently does not. Apparently, my ancestors were the cooks and chefs that kept everyone else well-fed. Oh well, back to putting the icing on the cake.....
 A very interesting resource January 17, 2007
Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, Illinois, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This wonderful little book is the product of Dr. George Fenwick Jones's lifelong interest in German names. The beginning of the book is a history of German names, including what happened to them in America. After that, the book goes into a lengthy alphabetical list of surnames that points back to appropriate paragraph in the earlier chapters, explaining where it came from.
Overall, I found this to be a very interesting resource. If you are interested in genealogy, or just want to know a little bit about your names, then this is a good book for you to get. I highly recommend it!
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