The following is a list of free online sources for the reliable etymological origins of given names and surnames.
Ancestry.com has transcribed info from a recent edition of Dictionary of American Family Names.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/
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<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx? |title=Learn about the family history of your surname |publisher=[[Ancestry.com]] |accessdate={{subst:date}}}}, which cited: {{citation |title=Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780190245115}}, for the surname "Raven".</ref>
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Output | Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 1 July 2024, which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780190245115, for the surname "Raven". |
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive; however, it does require that you have a free registration with the Internet Archive, and you must borrow the text for either one hour or fourteen days.
Link to the work at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_r0m5/
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{{Cite book |editor-last=Hanks |editor-first=Patrick |url=http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_r0m5 |title=Dictionary of American family names |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |pages= |url-access=registration |accessdate= |via=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-508137-4 }}
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive; however, it does require that you have a free registration with the Internet Archive, and you must borrow the text for either one hour or fourteen days.
A comment associated with the linked record suggests that this work is inferior to the works of Hanks (e.g. Dictionary of American Family Names)
Link to the work at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/newdictionaryofa00smi_sln/
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{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Elsdon Coles |url=http://archive.org/details/newdictionaryofa00smi_sln |title=New dictionary of American family names |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-06-013933-9 |location=New York |pages= |url-access=registration |accessdate= |via=Internet Archive}}
Volume 2 of this work has been made available for free access via the Internet Archive. A comment has been added to this record asking after Volume 1 without response.
Link to the work at Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/cu31924092512635
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{{Cite book|last=Harrison|first=Henry|url=http://archive.org/details/cu31924092512635|title=Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary|last2=|first2=|date=|publisher=London : Eaton Press|others=Assisted by Gyᵭa Harrison; text provided by Cornell University Library|year=1918|isbn=|volume=Volume 2|location=London|pages= |via=Intenet Archive|accessdate= }}
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive; however, it does require that you have a free registration with the Internet Archive, and you must borrow the text for either one hour or fourteen days.
Link to the work at Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/penguindictionar00cott
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{{Cite book|last=Cottle|first=Basil|url=http://archive.org/details/penguindictionar00cott|title=The Penguin dictionary of surnames|date=|publisher=Penguin Books|others=|year=1978|isbn=978-0-14-051032-4|edition=Reprint|location=New York|author-link=Basil Cottle|orig-year=1967|url-access=registration|pages= |via=Internet Archive|accessdate= }}
This work has been made freely available via Google Books.
Link to the work at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=YeILt9cjl6cC&newbks=0
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{{Cite book|last=Lower|first=Mark Antony|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeILt9cjl6cC&newbks=0|title=English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humourous. With chapters of rebuses and canting arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of latinized surnames, etc|date=|publisher=John Russell Smith|year=1849|isbn=|edition=3rd|volume=Volume 1|location=London|language=en|author-link=Mark Antony Lower|pages= |via=Google Books|accessdate= }}
Encyclopedia.com has transcribed info from a 2006 edition of A Dictionary of First Names. This edition appears to be different than the edition transcribed by Ancestry.com (see below).
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<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Susie.html |title=Susie |publisher=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |accessdate=4 February 2011 }}, which cited: {{citation |title=A Dictionary of First Names |year=2006 |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |last2=Hardcastle |authorlink1=Patrick Hanks |first2=Kate |last3=Hodges |first3=Flavia |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] }}, for the given name "Susie".</ref>
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Output | Susie, Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 4 February 2011, which cited: Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, for the given name "Susie". |
Ancestry.com has transcribed info from an edition of A Dictionary of First Names. This edition appears to be different than the edition transcribed by Encyclopedia.com (see above).
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<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx? |title=Learn about the family history of your surname |publisher=[[Ancestry.com]] |accessdate=4 February 2011 }}, which cited: {{citation |title=A Dictionary of First Names |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0192800507 }}, for the given name "Susie".</ref>
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Output | Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 4 February 2011, which cited: A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192800507, for the given name "Susie". |
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive.
Link to the work at Google Books: http://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91400
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{{Cite book|last=Weekley|first=Ernest|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91400|title=The Romance of Names|date=|publisher=John Murray|year=1914|isbn=|location=London|pages= |via=Internet Archive|accessdate= }}
The following is a list of free online sources for the reliable etymological origins of given names and surnames.
Ancestry.com has transcribed info from a recent edition of Dictionary of American Family Names.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/
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<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx? |title=Learn about the family history of your surname |publisher=[[Ancestry.com]] |accessdate={{subst:date}}}}, which cited: {{citation |title=Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780190245115}}, for the surname "Raven".</ref>
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Output | Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 1 July 2024, which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780190245115, for the surname "Raven". |
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive; however, it does require that you have a free registration with the Internet Archive, and you must borrow the text for either one hour or fourteen days.
Link to the work at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_r0m5/
Additional fields to consider adding to general sample below
{{Cite book |editor-last=Hanks |editor-first=Patrick |url=http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_r0m5 |title=Dictionary of American family names |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |pages= |url-access=registration |accessdate= |via=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-508137-4 }}
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive; however, it does require that you have a free registration with the Internet Archive, and you must borrow the text for either one hour or fourteen days.
A comment associated with the linked record suggests that this work is inferior to the works of Hanks (e.g. Dictionary of American Family Names)
Link to the work at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/newdictionaryofa00smi_sln/
Additional fields to consider adding to general sample below
{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Elsdon Coles |url=http://archive.org/details/newdictionaryofa00smi_sln |title=New dictionary of American family names |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1972 |isbn=978-0-06-013933-9 |location=New York |pages= |url-access=registration |accessdate= |via=Internet Archive}}
Volume 2 of this work has been made available for free access via the Internet Archive. A comment has been added to this record asking after Volume 1 without response.
Link to the work at Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/cu31924092512635
Additional fields to consider adding to general sample below
{{Cite book|last=Harrison|first=Henry|url=http://archive.org/details/cu31924092512635|title=Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary|last2=|first2=|date=|publisher=London : Eaton Press|others=Assisted by Gyᵭa Harrison; text provided by Cornell University Library|year=1918|isbn=|volume=Volume 2|location=London|pages= |via=Intenet Archive|accessdate= }}
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive; however, it does require that you have a free registration with the Internet Archive, and you must borrow the text for either one hour or fourteen days.
Link to the work at Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/penguindictionar00cott
Additional fields to consider adding to general sample below
{{Cite book|last=Cottle|first=Basil|url=http://archive.org/details/penguindictionar00cott|title=The Penguin dictionary of surnames|date=|publisher=Penguin Books|others=|year=1978|isbn=978-0-14-051032-4|edition=Reprint|location=New York|author-link=Basil Cottle|orig-year=1967|url-access=registration|pages= |via=Internet Archive|accessdate= }}
This work has been made freely available via Google Books.
Link to the work at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=YeILt9cjl6cC&newbks=0
Additional fields to consider adding to general sample below
{{Cite book|last=Lower|first=Mark Antony|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeILt9cjl6cC&newbks=0|title=English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humourous. With chapters of rebuses and canting arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of latinized surnames, etc|date=|publisher=John Russell Smith|year=1849|isbn=|edition=3rd|volume=Volume 1|location=London|language=en|author-link=Mark Antony Lower|pages= |via=Google Books|accessdate= }}
Encyclopedia.com has transcribed info from a 2006 edition of A Dictionary of First Names. This edition appears to be different than the edition transcribed by Ancestry.com (see below).
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<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Susie.html |title=Susie |publisher=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |accessdate=4 February 2011 }}, which cited: {{citation |title=A Dictionary of First Names |year=2006 |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |last2=Hardcastle |authorlink1=Patrick Hanks |first2=Kate |last3=Hodges |first3=Flavia |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] }}, for the given name "Susie".</ref>
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Output | Susie, Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 4 February 2011, which cited: Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, for the given name "Susie". |
Ancestry.com has transcribed info from an edition of A Dictionary of First Names. This edition appears to be different than the edition transcribed by Encyclopedia.com (see above).
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<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx? |title=Learn about the family history of your surname |publisher=[[Ancestry.com]] |accessdate=4 February 2011 }}, which cited: {{citation |title=A Dictionary of First Names |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0192800507 }}, for the given name "Susie".</ref>
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Output | Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 4 February 2011, which cited: A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192800507, for the given name "Susie". |
This work has been made freely available via the Internet Archive.
Link to the work at Google Books: http://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91400
Additional fields to consider adding to general sample below
{{Cite book|last=Weekley|first=Ernest|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91400|title=The Romance of Names|date=|publisher=John Murray|year=1914|isbn=|location=London|pages= |via=Internet Archive|accessdate= }}