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Collected Name Resources from LoARs (2010-present)

Articles from Juliana de Luna, Lillia de Vaux, and Alys Mackyntoich

From Juliana Pelican, June 2010: There is an enormous (and growing) number of resources online that can be useful to heralds and to submitters. Each month, I'm going to post information about some that I think might be useful. If I miss some interesting ones, let me know, because I don't know everything.

From Lillia Pelican, March 2014: Pelican Emeritus is a hard act to follow. Her name resources series lasted the length of her tenure and covered a wide range of languages. I plan to spotlight some of our lesser-known, but very useful sources from time to time.

From Alys Pelican, August 2017: My esteemed predecessors established this series of Cover Letter articles about name resources and I am pleased to be able to continue it.

This collation of their Cover Letter items was put together by Honorable Lady Adelaide Colette de Monferrer.

Personal names

Middle English (1066-1500)
Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
Late Period English
English Men's Names
Gaelic and Anglicized Irish
Irish Gaelic
Scots and Gaelic
Mac/Mc
Welsh
Spanish
Iberian (Spanish, Portugeuse, and Arabic)
French
French Occitan/Provencal
German
Latin
Roman
Greek
Old Norse
Scandinavian
Danish
Hungarian
Polish
Eastern European
Eastern European (Baltic)
Mongol
Asian

Placenames

English
French

Households

Household Names
Household Designators

Order Names, Households, and Titles

Order Names and Heraldic Titles
Alternative Titles in Dutch

Name Construction

Double Given Names
Culturally Mixed Names
Languages
Regional Naming Groups
SENA Appendixes
Marital Bynames
Patronymic Bynames
Matronymic Bynames (Northern)
Matronymic Bynames (Southern)

Name Documentation

Criteria for Sources
Documentation
Header Forms in Documentation
Familysearch (IGI)
National French Library