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Genealogy: Finding the History of Your Last Name: Reference Books

Reference Books

Reference Books

Reference Books                    * Star is for particularly useful resources


1.    *The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
Author:  Frederick Adams Virkus
•  Location:            Reference -Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929 V81a
•  Number of Items:        5 Vols.
•  Status:            Available


2.    *The Source:  A Guidebook to American Geneology
Edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking.
•  Location:            Reference -Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.1072 S724
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available

3.    *Tracing Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes
Author:  Rachel Mills Lennon.
•  Location:            Reference -Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.1 L567t
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available


4.    *Printed Sources for Oklahoma Genealogical and Historical Research
Author:  Paul Follett.
•  Location:            Reference -Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.107 F667p
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available

5.    An  Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names
Author:  William Arthur
•  Location:            Reference-Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.4 Ar78e
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available

6.    *Dictionary of American Family Names
Editor:  Patrick Hanks
•  Location:            Reference-Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.4 D5544
•  Number of Items:        3
•  Status:            Available


7.    New Dictionary of American Family Names
Author:  Elsdon C. Smith
•  Location:            Reference-Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.4 Sm55n
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available


8.    A Dictionary of British Surnames
Author:  Percy Hilde Reaney
•  Location:            Reference-Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.4 R23d
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available


9.    Encyclopedia of American Family Names
Authors:  H. Amanda Robb and Andrew Chesler
•  Location:            Reference-Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.4 R532e
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available


10.    The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names
Author:  E.G. Withycombe
•  Location:            Reference-Weatherford
•  Call Number:         R 929.4 W779o3
•  Number of Items:        1
•  Status:            Available

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