Since 1971 our professional researchers at Hall of Names have been compiling our library of surname histories which we have available to you today. On-going research by qualified historians means that new resources are added to our bibliography on a continual basis. Source material used to research these histories have been chosen for their reliability and authenticity. Exaggerated or fictional information has been excluded from the scrolls and any information that can be attributed to legend or folklore is clearly stated as such. In general, events and people are only cited if supportive evidence is available.
This bibliography includes frequently used sources and is designed as an aid to further our customers personal research. The following resources directly or indirectly influenced the authors whom have compiled the ever-growing library of Hall of Names family histories. Sources are listed by the main nationality for which they are used, however, many books apply to more than one area of research.
England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales
A Constitutional History of Modern England
Age of Conquest - Wales
Agrarian History of England and Wales
A Heraldic Alphabet
An Ordinary of Arms - Scotland
Assize Rolls
Bede's Histories
Benet's Readers Encyclopedia
Book of Kells
Book of Ulster Surnames
Brights of Suffolk
Burke's Commoners, Landed Gentry, Peerage, and others v
Cabinet of Irish Literature,1-111
Catholic Directory for Scotland
Calendarium Inquistionum Post Mortem
Clans Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands
Court Records
Crozier's General Armoury
Curia Regis Roll
Dictionary of Irish History
Domesday Book
Elvins Mottoes Revised
English Historical Facts 1603-1688
European Society 1500 - 1700
Falaise Roll
Family Names of County Cork
Fox-Davies various works
General Armoury, Burke's
Genealogical Gleanings in England 1901
Highland Clans, Moncreiffe & Hicks
Highland Clearances
History of Congleton
History of England, l-Vll
History of Scotland, l-Vlll
Hundreds Rolls
Harleian Manuscripts
Inquisito Favidus
International Who's Who
Ireland and Her People
Irish Families, MacLysaght
Irish Pedigrees l-ll
Kennedy's Book of Arms
Key to Parochial Registers of Scotland
Knights of England
Manorial Rolls
More Irish Families
National Biography
Norton Encyclopedia of Music
Oxford Companion to Sports and Games
Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials
Pipe Rolls
Regesta Regum Scottorum
Roll of the Battel Abbey
Scotch-Irish l-ll
Scots Heraldry, Innes
Scots Kith and Kin
Scottish Clan and Family Names
Scottish Family Histories
Surname dictionaries by Bardsley, Reaney, Lower,Black,
Hanks and Hodges
Tartans of the Clans and families of Scotland
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Celts
The High Kings
The Pictish Chronicle
The Surnames of Ireland, MacLysaght
The Wace Poem
Various Passenger Lists
Welsh Surnames, Morgan
Germany
Abhandlungen zur Namenforschung, Bahlow
Bayerisch Stammenbuch von den alten abgestorbenen Fuerton
Deutsches Namenlexikon, Bahlow
Die lippischen Familiennamen
Familiennamen der Ostschweiz
Familiennamen im badischen Oberland
Familiennamen in Ostfalen
Familiennamen in Tirol
Fraenkische Familiennamen
Grosses Wappen Bilder Lexikon
Habsburg Monarchy
Kneschke, Deutsches Adels Lexicon l-lX
Mecklenburgisches Namenbuchlein, Bahlow
Mittelhochdeutshes Namenbuch nach schlesischen Quellen,
Bahlow
Nebst Tamellur, Tiroler Familiennamen
Niederdeutsche Familiennamen
Oxford Companion to German Literature
Reitstap's Armorials
Schwabische Geschlechtsnamen, Kapff
Sueddeutsche Familiennamen
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index
France
Ancien Regime
Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana 1699 -
1732
Coming of the French Revolution, The
Complement au Dictionaire Genealogique Tanguay
Dictionary of Canadian Biographies
Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais
French Canadians l-ll
Genealogie des Familles de Terrebonne
Genealogies des Familles de Saint-Simon, 1600-1900
Huguenot Ancestry
La France Moderne-Grand Dictionnaire Genealogique
La Noblesse aux Etats de Bourgogne de 1350 a 1789
Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec
Le livre d'or du Lyonnais
Les Noms de Famille de France, Albert Dauzat
Les Vieux Noms de France, Puymege
Nobiliare de France
Nos Origines en France
Noms de Famille Familles de Noms, Vincent
Nos Origines en France
Nouvelle Biographie General 1850-1860
Oxford Companion to French Literature
Quebec and its Historians
Repertoire des Mariages de L'll D'Orleans, 1500-1900
Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV
The French Canadians 1760 - 1967
Who's Who in France
Spain/Latin American
Apuntes de Nobiliaria y Nociones de Genealogia y Heraldica
Elenco de Grandezas
Encyclopedia of Latin America
Nobiliario Espanol, Atienza
Oxford companion to Spanish Literature
South America, Central America and the Caribbean
Who's Who among Hispanic Americans
Y Titulos Nobiliarios Espanoles
Other Countries
Library of Congress
Americans of Royal Descent
Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists
Boltons American Armory
Canadian Almanac and Directory
Carleton Saga
Census Records for the 19th Century
Colombo's Canadian Quotations
Debretts Texas Peerage
Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada before
Confederation
Families of the South of Bonne Bay
Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland
Fatal Shore, Hughes
Irish Emigrant Experience in Australia
Library of Congress American and English Genealogies
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