[ANSTHRLD] Name research in the news

[Jay and Laurie Brandt]

It looks like the American edition will be called First Names in Local & 
Family History.
HL Pegasus Devona

Tim McDaniel wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Don and Monica <dmriney at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Diet Coke anyone?
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>>http://www.nbc5i.com/family/2908955/detail.html
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>"Diot Coke", a girl, was baptised in 1379.  Diot is a diminutive of
>Dionisia, which also lead to today's Denise.  No source is given there
>except that she was born in the West Riding in Yorkshire.  Another
>story,
><http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0330features/content_objectid=14020288_method=full_siteid=50060_headline=-The-girl-called-Diot-Coke-name_page.html>
>says
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>    In his latest book, Christian Names In Local And Family History,
>    Dr George Redmond provides the first in-depth study of the
>    development of first names in this country.
>
>Says it's published by The National Archives, UKP 16.99.  Someone is
>going to evaluate it to see if it's a good replacement for Withycombe
>for our purposes?
>
>    The book is packed with information, lots of it culled from West
>    Yorkshire, and has two essential indexes, for Christian names and
>    family names.
>
>Daniel de Lincolia
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