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	Passenger lists and Emigrant ships from Norway-Heritage
		A patronymic is the fathers name as a prefix with a -sen, -son -datter or -dotter added as a postfix to the name.
		You might also have to experiment with different form of the names, as they can be entered in a different form than what you expected.
		a patronymic or surname/farmname, indicates that the information is not given in the original, but included by the registrator on the basis of the information regarding the surrounding persons in the source.
	www.norwayheritage.com /pasquest.asp (450 words)

	Collected Precedents of the S.C.A.: Patronymic Bynames
		The patronymic byname was changed at Kingdom to meet the submitter's request for authenticity for 10th C Norse.
		The patronym derives from the listing under Fahey in MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland where the masculine form is given as Ó Fathaigh and this is stated to be "A sept of the Ui Maine centred near Loughrea where their territory was known as Pobal Mhuintir Ui Fhathaigh, wherein we now find the modern place-name Fahysvillage.
		Patronymic bynames in Old English are typically formed by placing the father's name in the genitive case and appending a form of sunu 'son'.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/PatronymicBynames.html (17049 words)

	ANCESTORS FROM NORWAY
		These patronymic names, however, were not part of the child's baptized name, indeed the baptized name consisted only of a first name, such as Daniel, and sometimes a middle name, such as Rasmus.
		In fact, it was not until 1900 or so that the patronyms "froze" and began to be used as a surname, i.e., a name that would be passed down from generation to generation.
		The patronymic name followed a person their whole life -- once you were the son of Hans, it would require a small earthquake of a paternity suit in order to change it -- but the farm name might change according to the time and situation in the person's life.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~norway/na12.html (2695 words)

	Etymology of Last Names (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Patronymic surnames are names used to describe a man by using his father's name.
		Cates is an English Patronymic name from the Old Norse nickname Kati, which meant 'boy' and speculation that it was derived from the nickname Kate (from Catherine) should be tempered with the knowledge that the Kate nickname wasn't used for Catherine until after the Middle Ages, when Cates was already established as a surname.
		Occasionally, it is a surname taken as a Patronymic version of a shortened form of the given name Marmaduke, which is of Irish origin, said to be derived from 'mael Maedoc' which meant 'devotee of Maedoc' a name borne by several Irish saints.
	mizian.com.ne.kr /englishwiz/library/names/etymology_of_last_names.htm (11609 words)

	Origin and Meaning of Molokan Surnames
		This patronymic surname is derived from Arisha, a diminutive form of the men's name Arinei and the women's name Arina.
		This patronymic surname is derived from Erka (pronounced Yerka) a diminutive form of the men's names Erofei (pronounced Yerofei) and Erast (pronounced Yerast).
		This patronymic surname is derived from Makhno, a diminu
	www.doukhobor.org /Molokan.htm (6934 words)

	NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
		The patronymic the Norwegian first used when he dealt with the Yankees, however, was often a temporary one that he adopted for convenience, and is not the one used by his descendants today.
		Although the Norwegians of the Koshkonong and Springdale settlements had to accustom themselves to either the patronymic or the farm name as a family name, their problem was still further complicated by the fact that, if they had sons, they had two patronymics in the same family.
		On the other hand, if the father was old and dependent on his son and lived with him, the father sometimes used his son's patronymic, which, in the case of the father, obviously had lost all meaning as a patronymic; it had become a family name.
	www.naha.stolaf.edu /pubs/nas/volume12/vol12_1.htm (9628 words)

	Patronymic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father.
		A father's first name is easily determinable when his children bear a patronymic; however, migration has frequently resulted in a switch from a patronymic to a surname due to different local customs.
		In biological taxonomy, a patronym is a specific epithet which is a Latinized surname.
	www.buzznet.com /tags/patronymic (289 words)

	BBC - South East Wales Family history - Patronymic Naming
		Patronymics describes the process of giving a male child the father's given, or forename, as a surname.
		The Welsh patronymic system describes family trees in terms of the male line only and records the family association in the 'ap' or 'ab' prefix - 'ap' is a contraction of the Welsh word mab, which means son.
		I have found De Robart as a fixed surname in early records in Devon and the Norman Goodhurst Roberts family of Kent, that decided to use Roberts as a surname.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/sites/familyhistory/pages/patronymic.shtml (1556 words)

	patronymic - English-Italian Dictionary - WordReference.com
		Forum discussions with the word(s) 'patronymic' in the title:
		Discussioni nei forum nel cui titolo è presente la parola 'patronymic':
		Non ci sono titoli che contengano la parola/frase 'patronymic'.
	www.wordreference.com /enit/patronymic (29 words)

	Surnames J
		is a variation of the patronymic name Jane (not to be confused with the female given name Jane, which didn't appear until the 17th century).
		English Patronymic Name:One of the earliest first names was John (gift of God), which in the 17th century replaced William as the most popular name for a male.
		As a patronymic name, Johnson from England and Scandinavia became the most widely found name in America, and its Welsh version Jones the fifth-most prolific.
	www.btinternet.com /~johnhglen/surnames_beginning_with_the_letter_j.htm (578 words)

	Diana's Genealogy Pages: Patronyms
		The only logical way to organize Y-DNA projects for those with patronymic surnames is regionally, at the outset, and then genetically, after test results are known, as is the case in the Danish Demes Regional DNA Project.
		For those individuals who have only a patronymic and no surname, the best course, in my opinion, is to leave the surname field blank, just as I believe that is the best course to take when the surname is simply unknown.
		One advantage to not putting the patronymic in the surname field is apparent when viewing an alphabetized index of your database because all those without surnames will be grouped together, in alphabetical order by their call names.
	dgmweb.net /genealogy/Ancillary/OnE/Patronymics.shtml (1151 words)

	Origin of the Saari Surname
		The patronymic name was formed by adding ‘son’ or ‘dotter’ (for records in Swedish) or ‘poika’ or ‘tytär’ (for records in Finnish) to the given name of the parent.
		In addition to a given name and a patronymic name, a farm name is used to identify the members of the farming communities in the Finnish church records.
		If I don’t know the name of the farm where the person was living at the time of their marriage, I use the name of the first farm on which they lived as a married adult (which is taken from the birth/christening records for the birth of the person’s children and from the communion books).
	members.aol.com /dssaari/saarinam.htm (1930 words)

	Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Danes plan to (optionally) return to Patronymic Names
		Patronymic names are a problem for genealogists; tracking a family tree is most difficult when the surnames change every generation.
		Immigration records from Norway in the mid-to-late 19th century vary; some use patronymic names, and others use their first name plus either the farm name on which they were born, or the name of the farm where they worked just before emigrating.
		My Danish gr-gr-grandparents' wife and children adopted his patronymic surname when they arrived here, although the middle initial of B for him that is listed on the 1885 MN state census seems to be his father's occupation, Bødker, which shows up as a surname tacked on his father's name on his baptism record.
	eogn.typepad.com /eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/07/danes_plan_to_o.html (2407 words)

	MyDanishRoots.com :: Genealogy and Family History in Denmark / Danmark - The 100 most common surnames in Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of the following 100 surnames, as many as 64 derive from the patronymic naming tradition (names ending with "-sen"), 23 from nicknames, 9 from topographic features, and 2 from an occupation.
		The 15 most common names account for as many as 40 percent of the Danish population - all of them of patronymic origin - and all top 100 surnames account for as many as 57,22% of all Danes.
		Over the years the top surnames have remained consistent and there has only been little change in the distribution of the more common surnames in the Danish population.
	www.mydanishroots.com /surnames/100_most_common_surnames.html (722 words)

	Surname Meanings: I-O* Broken Arrow Publishing
		Bloyd, Blood, and Blud are patronymic versions of the name formed from the Welsh patronymic prefix "Ap" which meant "son of." When "Ap Lloyd" (son of Lloyd) was said quickly, the p-l often became indistinguishable from b-l.
		McCormick is the patronymic form of the Scottish surname Cormack, an Anglicized form of the given name Cormac, from the elements corb = raven + mac = son.
		McLaughlin is a Scottish patronymic name Anglicized from the Gaelic Mac Lachlainn, a patronymic form of the given name Lachlann which was a Gaelic term for "stranger" and was applied to the Vikings who had settled nearby.
	links2history.com /namei.htm (16348 words)

	Danish Naming Patterns
		From about 1860-1904 the naming customs in each of these countries was changing from this system of patronymics that was used for hundreds of years to the type of system used in the rest of Europe and America where the surname was passed from father to son.
		A person could use the patronymic name they were born with for a family surname and pass it on to all their children.
		In all cases the patronymic is the primary surname and the other surname is secondary and just used to better identify him.
	www.progenealogists.com /denmark/naming.htm (1667 words)

	Surnames M
		In Scotland, the eldest sons of Barons held this title, and the name may have been an acquired nickname for the servant of the eldest son of a baron.
		English Patronymic Name, Matthew means 'gift of Yahweh' as does Matthias -- both were popular first names in early times, and it is almost impossible to determine which derivatives came from which name...at any rate, Matthews and Mathews are English Patronymic names (from the father) and Mathis is the German counterpart.
		is the patronymic form of the Scottish surname Cormack, an Anglicised form of the given name Cormac, from the elements corb meaning raven + mac meaning son.
	www.btinternet.com /~johnhglen/surnames_beginning_with_the_letter_m_.htm (1407 words)

	Lexicon of Greek Personal Names - Names
		The patronymic was crucial in identifying and legitimising the individual.
		The patronymic generally took the form of the father’s name in the genitive case:
		Whether the name and patronymic was followed by an indication of origin depended entirely on context.
	www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk /names/practices.html (534 words)

	Naming conventions
		It is obligatory for people to have three names: a given name, a patronymic, and a family name (surname).
		The patronymic of a person is based on the first name of his or her father and is written in all documents.
		Similarly, the patronymic name of Светлана Иосифовна Сталина (Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina) indicates that her father was named Иосиф (Iosif) (in this case, Iosif (Joseph) Stalin).
	www2.potsdam.edu /mausdc/class/481/names.html (751 words)

	Surname Meanings: T-Z * Broken Arrow Publishing
		Watson is a patronymic form of the English and Scottish name Watt, which came from the extremely popular Middle English given name Wat or Watt, which was a pet form of the name Walter.
		Weeks is a patronymic form of the name Week, which is an English place name that described the man who lived in an outlying village or settlement, removed from the main town or village of the area -- from Old English wic = outlying settlement, farm.
		Wilkerson is a variation of the English patronymic name Wilkin, which was taken from a medieval given name, Wilkin, derived from a shortened form of William (Will) with the addition of a suffix -kin to form a diminutive or pet form of the name.
	links2history.com /namet.htm (8284 words)

	Naming Customs in Schleswig-Holstein
		Because of problems involving identifying heirs and relatives for probate proceedings, a law was passed in the duchy of Schleswig in Nov 1771 requiring the taking of set-surnames throughout the region.
		The result was that in some places people took set patronymic names or used old nicknames or farm names, or in a few areas took entirely new names.
		Sometimes a person may have taken a patronymic name other than their own or their father's patronymic name.
	www.progenealogists.com /germany/schleswig/schlesname.htm (1161 words)

	names1
		A patronymic is simply the use of your father's first name as your surname, appropriately modified by the addition of son or daughter.
		Russians also actively continue to use patronymics, although as a middle name, so it is still common to use the full first name and patronymic as a form of formal address.
		Hence family selection of a single surname amongst the patronymic possibilities, once you arrived at Ellis Island, was guaranteed to be a source of confusion.
	users.owt.com /w.i.borg/names1.htm (1661 words)

	Random Genealogy » Blog Archive » Danes Returning to Patronymic Names
		Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter mentions that Danes are going to be returning (optionally of course) to patronymic names.
		Until the late nineteenth century, patronymic naming conventions were common in Scandinavia, Wales, and a number of other countries.
		In fact, patronymic names are still used in Iceland.
	www.randomgenealogy.com /2005/07/29/danes (206 words)

	Italian Names (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Note that nine of the top ten patronymic entries appear in the top ten names in the next generation.
		This should come as no surprise because, as is the case today, many of these names have roots either in the Bible or in the names of the saints.
		There are less total names in the patronymic field because it was left blank for a number of households.
	www.s-gabriel.org /names/ferrante/catasto (235 words)

	About Russian Names (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russians, generally, have three names: the first or given name (imya), the patronymic (otchestvo), and the last or family name (familya).
		The patronymic, created from the given name of a person's father and a suffix meaning son of or daughter of, is unique to Russian names.
		It takes different forms for men and women: A man's patronymic ends in -ovich or -evich, while a woman's ends in -ovna or -evna.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/anna/whoswho/names.html (196 words)

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