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Handy Guide: Irish Given Names: Popularity, Spelling Variants, Diminutives and Abbreviations
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The names of our ancestors are the gateway to tracing our family history. This Handy Guide is filled with tables which enable you to find the “very common”and “รงommon” Irish male and female names from 1700s-early 1900s.
8 pages, Digital (.pdf) Download Only
Sold By: Unlock the Past
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Handy Guide: Irish Given Names: Popularity, Spelling Variants, Diminutives and Abbreviations
Carol Baxter, 2019, Publisher: Unlock the Past
8 pages, Digital (.pdf) Download Only
Researching Irish ancestry is generally more difficult than researching England Ancestry so we must make the most of any information we have available.
Gaining knowledge about our ancestors’ given names can be helpful in tracing these individuals or other family members. The assist researchers, this handy guide explores Irish given names from the mid-1700s to the early 1900s, the period that interests most family history researchers.
Filled with tables you find a table of the common Irish male and female names from 1700s-1900s, names list spelling variants as well as diminutives and abbreviations. This will prove incredibly useful not only when reading old documents or letters which have the names abbreviated, but also to give you clues on alternate spellings of names you could be looking for.
