linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: Exploring your linguistic heritage #4: 1940 U.S. Census
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2012/04/exploring-your-linguistic-heritage-4.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Sunday, April 1, 2012. Exploring your linguistic heritage #4: 1940 U.S. Census. The release of the 1940 census has been much anticipated in the genealogical community. I am no exception. In terms of exploring your ancestors' linguistic heritage this census offers some good news and some bad news. For more information about language in earlier censuses, check out this post. Exploring your linguistic heritage. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On a ...
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: Dealing with synthetic structures in Latin
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2010/11/dealing-with-synthetic-structures-in.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Dealing with synthetic structures in Latin. In a previous post. I talked about two different ways of organizing language and then in a later post. Take the following church record:. Many of the names are no doubt very familiar looking, but have unfamiliar endings. Or their feminine forms Juli a. This form is called the nominative. Endings used to indicate the object of a verb. And are used to mark the possessor. In a Lati...
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: Surname Saturday: Breton
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2012/04/surname-saturday-breton.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Saturday, April 21, 2012. St Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, LA. This month I am taking a closer look at surnames that indicate a national, ethnic or regional origin. Many French surnames indicate the region of origin of their bearers. Before the French Revolution, France was divided into 40 provinces. To a large extent, these provinces define the historical regions of France. After the Revolution, France was reorganized with regions. Please help wi...
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: Surname Saturday - Fleury
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2012/05/surname-saturday-fleury.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Saturday, May 26, 2012. Surname Saturday - Fleury. Many surnames have their origins in the natural world. Because it's the month of May, it seems appropriate to take a look at some floral surnames. One such name in my own family tree is the name Fleury. The name occurs in French Canada, but my ancestor with this name lived in Brittany, in what is now the department of Loire-Atlantique. The name Fleury. Is an adjective derived from the noun fleur.
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: A tip for identifying the language of a document
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2012/03/tip-for-identifying-language-of.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Sunday, March 25, 2012. A tip for identifying the language of a document. The first words are "L'an mil". L'an. Is a contraction of the French words Le. Which is the definite article "the", and an. The word for "year". Mil. Is the word for "thousand". Next is the marriage record for their son Johann Schoendorf and his wife Anna Maria Klinlger from 1817. Means "in the year". If you just wanted to say "the year", you would use annus. Once again we enc...
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: July 2012
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Saturday, July 14, 2012. Today is La Fête Nationale, more commonly known in the English-speaking world as Bastille Day. This day commemorates the storming of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and the French Revolution more generally. On the same day in Chantenay, in what is now the city of Nantes, my sixth great grandparents, François Ridel and Jeanne Saulny were married. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Exploring your linguistic heritage.
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: Guide to Useful Words
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/p/guide-to-useful-words.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Guide to Useful Words. Září. Září. Září. Words and abbreviations for "Saint". Santo (San or Sant'). Sfântu (Sf.). 346;więty (św.). Svatý (Sv.). Svatá (Sv.). Shenjtori (Shën or Sh.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Exploring your linguistic heritage. Please help with research on family history research and its impact? Added or Updated Databases at Ancestry.com - Week of 21 to 27 August 2016. Top 10 genealogy resources. A new Blog I've Discovered!
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: My Surnames
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/p/my-surnames.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. 3 Paris, Québec. Given name André. Maine-et-Loire, Québec. United States, Ontario, Michigan, Idaho, Ohio. C ôtes d'Armor. Germany, Nova Scotia. Charente-Maritime, Québec. Charente-Maritime, Québec. 2 Côtes d'Armor. Charente-Maritime, Québec. Deux-Sèvres, Québec, Michigan. 1 Vendée, Québec. 2 Orne, Québec. Charente-Maritime, Québec. Manche, Ile-et-Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique. Vienne, Québec. Côtes d'Armor, Loire-Atlantique, Paris. Paris, Québec. Charen...
linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy: Surname Saturday - Fleming
http://linguistgenealogist.blogspot.com/2012/04/surname-saturday-fleming.html
A Linguist's Guide to Genealogy. Guide to Useful Words. Saturday, April 7, 2012. Surname Saturday - Fleming. Some surnames directly reflect the ethnicity or national origin of the bearer. For some reason, these names are especially common in Hungary where names like Tóth, "Slav", Horváth "Croat", Németh "German", Oláh "Vlach or Romanian" and Rácz "Serb or South Slav" are all among the most common surnames. A term for an inhabitant of Flanders ( OED. Of course, names can be tricky things and are not by th...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT