The ancient Welsh patronymic naming system can cause significant problems for genealogists. The old tendency to anglicise Welsh names can also present another hurdle for Welsh genealogists.
Н. Толстого; Public domain The full name of a Russian person consists of the first name and patronymic e.g. Лев Николаевич (Lev Nikolaevich). The full name is normally used ...
Compare Kowalski, Głowacz or Bystroń. Toponymic – these names are derived from place of residence, birth or family origin. Like: Brzeziński. Patronymic – usually derived from a person's given name and ...
In Old Norse society, family affiliation was nominally declared by a patronymic naming system, in which sons and daughters were customarily (though not inevitably) identified by their filial ...
Bell preserves a silence singularly at variance with his patronymic. The only public demonstration of principle that we have seen is an emblematic bell drawn upon a wagon by a single horse ...
This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core In his modest book, Sex and Family in the Bible and the Middle East (1959), Raphael Patai offers a survey of ...