[ANSTHRLD] Book help

[Kathleen O'Brien]

At 01:33 AM 7/11/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Kathleen O'Brien <kobrien at texas.net> wrote:
>> Don't bother with MacLysaght (it has almost no dates, lots of modern forms,
>> and other issues).
>>
>> Don't bother with Fucilla (most of the same problems as MacLysaght.)
>
>Would you say that De Felice is in the same boat?

Actually, no.  De Felice also has few dates, but it doesn't suffer from the
post-Ellis-Island problem that Fucilla does since Fucilla is targeted
towards people working on Italian-American genealogy.

I'd put De Felice about on the same level as Dauzat's "noms et prenoms" /
Morlet's "noms de famille".


>> I'd get Geirr Bassi (which is a special order from a particular
>> publisher - but I can't remember who right now).
>
>An obscure publisher known as the SCA Inc. stock clerk.
><https://secure.sca.org/cgi-bin/stockclerk/index>
>Click on "Free Trumptet Press West" [sic] and go to page 4.

So, it's finally available through the SCA?  Wow, that's a big change from
what we all used to have to go through to get it.  (Psst... Hey, do you
know where you can get a Geirr Bassi...? The jokes are endless...)


>Since it's also on page 1, I should address "Period Dictionary of
>Russian Names".  You don't get many Russian submissions, though, and
>it's $23, so unless you've got plenty of money, no.  I assume it's
>Paul Goldschmidt's _Dictionary of Russian Names_.
><http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/> is the on-line version: it appears
>to be the second edition; I've heard the third edition is available
>only in hardcopy and must be purchased, but quite a bit improved from
>the second ed.  My guess is that the stock clerk is selling the 3rd
>ed.

Correct.  And the 3rd edition has MANY more names than the 2nd edition.  We
should have a few copies around the kingdom so that it can come out at
consult tables, but I'm not sure a single group would get enough
submissions to make it worth getting a copy (says Mari, who has one of the
first copies that came off the presses.  Paul delivered them to Free
Trumpet Press West at KWHS in Houston - where several of us all made sure
to go buy copies).

For what it's worth, I use Ekwall and Bardsley more than Wickenden.  Heck,
I use Solveig ("Name Construction in Medieval Japan") more than Wickenden,
but then I tend to field lots of Gaelic and Japanese questions.

Mari