The now available sixth volume of the German Surname Atlas (DFA) contains forty-nine sets of maps with a total of 253 detailed maps showing the distribution of surnames derived from given names. The ...
Under the auspices of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and in collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Technical University in Darmstadt, a long-term project ...
Germany’s justice minister has launched plans to relax the country’s strict restrictions on family names — for example allowing couples to take double-barrelled surnames and pass them on to their ...
Y-chromosomal STR haplotype analysis reveals surname-associated strata in the East-German population
Surnames vary substantially both between and within European countries. In Germany, for example, although the majority of the one million different surnames are typically German (eg ‘Müller’, ‘Schmidt ...
The German Surname Atlas documents the spatial distribution of German surnames in 2005 in a six-volume work containing some 2,000 annotated maps. The fourth volume in the series was recently published ...
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