Family Names: Origins, History, Anthropology and Sociology

Abstract

Jointly guest-edited Special Issue of the online periodical Genealogy on the topic of Family Names and Naming. Submissions fall into five broad areas: projects and methods in family name research; systematic aspects of family names and naming; linguistic aspects of family names and naming; praxis in relation to family naming; and studies relating to individual family names (in which the focus should be on the name itself rather than on wider genealogical matters).