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HispanicGivenNames: Was:Somos Primos May 2005/I'm Crippled


 
well I don't have any understanding of this subject like I'd like to but here is a book that might have something to say about it. You might want to do a WorldCat Search of it and do an ILL:

Title : Hispanic first names : a comprehensive dictionary of 250 years of Mexican-American usage / compiled by Richard D. Woods.
Author : Woods, Richard Donovon.
Publisher : Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
Subject : Names, Personal--Mexican American.
Names, Personal--Spanish.
Names, Personal--United States.
Description : xviii, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes : English and Spanish.
Bibliography: p. [215]-224.
Series Title : Bibliographies and indexes in anthropology, no. 1
ISBN : 0313241937 (lib. bdg.)
OCLC No. : 10695954
Found in :
Location : Davis Reference 
Call Number : CS2375.U6 W66 1984
Holdings Status: c.1  Non-Circulating 



zendean wrote:
Joseph,
    Thank you for the kind words about the work I do on extraction. Joseph, I have a problem that I hope that you could  help   with. When I am doing the names on the records I often find strange names and spellings. I had a baby name book for naming kids and I wonder if there exists such a book for Latino kids. I thought that a phone book would help so I got one for a local city that has a lot of Hispanic families. There seems to be a limited number of first names and surnames. I need a better source. For example, I found a name that looked like "Eulalio Chuc" . I have never seen the surname "Chuc" or "Toco" or "Andurate" Moratalla. I am doing a church in Argentina and I guess the names are different or I am not that familiar with "Oligalla Zulipata". See, I am not sure if such names exist or if I am not reading them right. If I knew or had seen names like that, then I would recognize them like " Jose", "Juan" or "Julio".       You are a helpful person and if you can't think of a source for me on this, that is Ok because I am no worse off than before.
 
Your friend in Family Search,
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On another note: My Netscape has Crashed and I don't know if its burned or is recoverable. Many many of my folders with Ranchos emails and correspondence have disappeared. Thankfully the group has all the archives but a lot of my stuff is unavailable and I won't be able to function right without some of these materials. woe is me woe is me. . .hopefully you all won't notice anything but if you do thats whats going on with me. I'm trying to remedy the situation now, but it might take some time and much higher learning that I possess.

joseph