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in reply to a message by Jim Young
thank you!!! the locations you named all make sense to his ethnic background... His mother is english and irish and his dad is italian and irish. Where did you find this information if i may ask ? Do you have any sources online I could do further research on ? Anything is much appreciated!!
-Ashley
-Ashley
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Two of my sources for the Nora surname are online, but not in English, unfortunately. They are -
www.jtosti.com/noms (in French), and
www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/index.htm (in Italian)
For Code I used Reaney and Wilson's "Dictionary of British Surnames", and "The Oxford Names Companion". You can probably find these in a public library. But there is always www.ancestry.com, which has information on many surnames from many languages, including their meaning. Also the pages on this site giving the meanings of surnames in various languages.
As far as taking your research further than meaning, you could try www.genforum.com/[name], replacing [name], of course, with whatever name you are researching. If anyone else is researching that surname they are likely to be posting queries and replies to queries there.
www.jtosti.com/noms (in French), and
www.cognomiitaliani.org/cognomi/index.htm (in Italian)
For Code I used Reaney and Wilson's "Dictionary of British Surnames", and "The Oxford Names Companion". You can probably find these in a public library. But there is always www.ancestry.com, which has information on many surnames from many languages, including their meaning. Also the pages on this site giving the meanings of surnames in various languages.
As far as taking your research further than meaning, you could try www.genforum.com/[name], replacing [name], of course, with whatever name you are researching. If anyone else is researching that surname they are likely to be posting queries and replies to queries there.
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