Quite a mouthful with Thai surnames

New Straits Times;  September 14, 2003 ;     237 words ......Quite a mouthful with Thai surnames Edition: 2* WHILE the adoption of surnames in Malaysia is not that...Thailand, the changing of surnames is almost as common as eating...at the stall. The use of surnames in Thailand is still considered...offers a few thousand new family names that ...

FAMILY NAMES AND FAMILY HISTORY.

History Today;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......chief findings about surnames in recent years is that...assertion. The study of surnames was once the preserve...Dictionary of British Surnames (1958) and The Origin of English Surnames (1967), both of which...to understanding how surnames arose in the Middle Ages...time, and by tracing ...

China reranks top hundred surnames, with "Li" biggest one

Xinhua News Agency;  January 10, 2006 ;     298 words ...China reranks top hundred surnames, with "Li" biggest one...second and third biggest surnames in China, accounting...with altogether 4,100 surnames. China is the earliest...back to 5,000 years ago. Surnames in China have been passed...first ordering of Chinese family names, which found ...

Mongols, Told to Use Surnames Again, Are Trying to Remember

International Herald Tribune;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......be required to learn his family name. After getting by on...supposed to start using surnames again. If only they can...Mongolians know their ancestral family names. In addition to destroying...said the suppression of surnames has led to an increased...generations often remember ...

RIGHTS-JAPAN: DEBATE OVER SURNAMES UPSETS OLD GENDER ROLES

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ......married couples to use their own family names. Being able to maintain my own...Japanese spouses to keep their own surnames after marriage has been the subject...employees to use their premarital family names, and the central government will...

Family names no longer privileges for Tibetan nobles

Xinhua News Agency;  September 14, 2005 ;     466 words ...Family names no longer privileges for Tibetan nobles...nobles passing away, the traditional family names indicating their noble identities have...percent of the Tibetan population, had family names, while Tibetan civilians could only...

POSTCARD FOR MONGOLIA: SURNAMES ARE BACK!(DAYBREAK)(THE FLIP SIDE)(Column)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 20, 2004 ;     465 words ......after seizing power, erased family names as a way of ending the clan...is desperate to bring back surnames. Who knows who's related to...required everyone to have surnames. The law was largely ignored...2.5 million began to adopt surnames, reports the Canadian daily...

COLORFUL SURNAMES MAY HAVE AN EQUALLY COLORFUL PAST.(Lifestyle)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 29, 2000 ;     530 words ...Practically all European family names (surnames) are derived from one of four...descriptive nickname. Many of the surnames Americans use today had become...provides some of the colorful surnames that may adorn your family tree...

Variant Romanization of Korean Family Names Triggers Confusion.

Korea Times (Seoul, Korea);  May 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the golfer although their family names are exactly the same both...Romanization of Korean family names by comparing the different...standards to write the same family names. In case of the rare name...many of the less common surnames have more different styles...and Park (). ...

Promoting the use of surnames a good move

New Straits Times;  April 6, 2001 ;     274 words ......Times 04-06-2001 Promoting the use of surnames a good move Byline: Farouq Omaro Edition...report "Perlis campaign to promote use of surnames" (NST, Feb 8). I think it is a good move...Indians and Sarawakian natives do not have surnames. The Chinese, North Indians and most...

Streamlining of family names under study

The Malay Mail;  November 16, 2002 ;     124 words ......was still studying the proposal to streamline the use of family names in line with universal practice. He said the decision would...proposed that these words be dropped to streamline the use of family names. The proposal would change the traditional use of bin and...

Family names sought as link to past

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  November 24, 2002 ;     109 words ......is a query from a Topekan searching for roots. "I am doing genealogy, and on some of my names I am getting nowhere fast. The surnames I am working on are: Burgess, Ditch, Hansroth, Hensroth, Hayes, Howerton, Kobiskie and Pinick. Any help you can give or suggestion...

More than just entries on the family tree. (research into surnames)

U.S. News & World Report;  January 11, 1988 ;     700+ words ......the analysis of names--specifically surnames passed from generation to generation --i...Sforza and other researchers believe surnames provide a convenient way to study the...And researchers can study thousands of surnames at once, thus avoiding involved and expensive...

Surnames in the Azores: Analysis of the Isonymy Structure

Human Biology;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......a survey based on the frequencies of surnames listed in the 2001 telephone book. We...1,271 subscribers and 163 different surnames, Graciosa island presented the lowest value of abundance of surnames (α = 15.75), suggesting great genetic...

BIG `MAC' DILEMMA: IN A PICKLE OVER SURNAMES.(Lifestyle)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 10, 1997 ;     529 words ......Ireland and eventually to North America. Scottish surnames fall into two distinct linguistic groups: those...back as the eighth century. Some hereditary Irish surnames were well established by the 11th century - before...saints' names and to occupational names. Scots surnames of English linguistic origin ...