Swiss Surnames CD
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$45.00
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Description:
Our printed edition of Swiss Surnames (Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz) has now gone out of print. We have replaced it with a new CD-ROM edition based on the new Familiennamenverzeichnis der schweizer Bürger bis 1861 edited by Hans Minder and Alfred Imhof which was released, in German, in 2002 by the Genealogisch-Heraldische Gesellschaft des Kantons Bern and was made available to Picton Press by GHGB.
This new edition simplifies our 1995 edition by eliminating surnames which entered Switzerland after 1861 (the later arrivals are of no interest to American genealogists), and adds data on thousands of families. An important bonus is that we also present the list of surnames by Heimatort, so that once you locate the all-important Heimatort of your ancestors, you can see what other surnames also originated in that Heimatort. This feature will help you greatly in casese where you have narrowed your search to several possible Heimatort, and can cross-reference several other surnames (wives, friends, etc.) to see which specific Heimatort contains all or most of those surnames.
This is a must-have CD for all genealogists researching Switzerland.
