• General

  • Family Names, Surnames

    • List of resources for teh documentation of names used in the Low Countries prior to 1600 (1996)
    • Kate Monk's Onomastikon (The sources cited for "The Netherlands section" are in fact those for the Low Countries).
    • Bibliographical List by François Nielsen
    • Surname Distribution Studies Read the section about variants and surname corruption !
    • Census Information and Surname Distribution (USA)

  • First Names

    • Oude vleivormen en varianten van voornamen by F. Debrabandere (VVF site)

      List of first names, as they where used in Medieval Flanders, with their actual 'translation'

    • First names by José Schoovaerts

      Dictionary of Flemish First Names with translation in Latin and French

      Queries: post to ou mail list BELGIUM-ROOTS-L (click here for info)

    • Behind the Name by Mike Campbell

      The etymology and history of first names

    • The Medieval Names Archive by Joshua Mittleman

      The etymology and history of first names

      with a list of 15th Century Dutch first names and surnames (County of Holland)

  • Place Names

    • Place Name Servers on the Internet (Arizona State University)
    • Boards and committees on geographical names, onomastic institutions etc. (Place Names board of Estonia)
    • ShtetlSeeker - Town Search for Central & Eastern Europe by JewishGen
    • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names On Line

• Repositories

  • AustralAsia

    • Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia

  • Belgium

    • Geographical name distribution
      • VVF Databases
      • Patronymica Romanica

        French - Historical Dictionnairy of personal names

        Data from the [Belgian] National Register

        All (187,000) surnames, as listed in the Federal Population Register (provincial level)

        Type the (partial) surname in the field "Clef 1" and click on "Recherche"

        You will recieve a page with all surnames, that contains the word that you have entered with the distribution of each name (provincial level) and the INS number of that surname

        Ex: if you look for MATTHIJS, you could enter MAT and receive a page with about thousend variations OR you could enter MATTHIJS, that results in a list of 4 variations. Use the first method to look for all possible variations (in my case MATTEO, ...) and the second to look for the distribution of a surname.

  • Germany

    • Place Names

      GEOserv - a German town locator

      Click here for an extensive help

      Short and sweet click here to create the mail, replace the word "Placename" with the place name you are looking for, add variations o,n separeta lines, don't add a subkject line, ... and send. You will receive a reply wintin some minutes

  • USA

    • Geographical name distribution
      • U.S. Federal Census Bureau: Search Names Files
      • http://www.hamrick.com/names/

• Sources

  • Belgium

    • Instuut voor Naamkunde en Dialectologie

      Dutch - Historical Dictionnairy of personal names

      Atlas van de familienamen in het Nederlandse taalgebied

      No direct access to the data

    • Patronymica Romanica

• Bibliography

  • GeneaKnowHow: Place Names (Dutch)
  • GeneaKnowHow: Place Names Lists (Dutch)
  • Place Names in French Flanders by Cyriel Moeyaert (Dutch)

This web site is the collective work of the subscribers to the mail list BELGIUM-ROOTS-L founded June 1998 by Georges Picavet (see our members page and the copyrights page for more info) Q:\webbeta\rw_belgiumroots\sci\onomastics\index.html (br_sci) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:48:42 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:14:16 MST