[ANSTHRLD] Appendix F - The Index of Prohibited Books

[doug bell]

To the local heralds
If you have one of these books in your local library, DO NOT cite it for documentation.
Instead get the local seneschal to donate the volume to a charity, a children's library, or maybe a petting zoo to feed to a goat.  Just get it out of the library and keep it away from submitters.

If you send in docs from a book by Kolatch or Hanks & Hodges or others on this list you run the risk of getting the submission returned and making yourself and the submitter objects of ridicule.  The SCA simply doesn't accept or use these volumes anymore and hasn't for many years.

To the kingdom heralds

You might want to do a visitation and inventory of the libraries of the local branches to see if any of these nasty books are lurking there waiting to prey on a new herald.

Magnus

Appendix F
Arthur, Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names
"[Arthur] is not a reliable source, being a rather old volume of the
`what to name your baby' and `what does you family name mean' variety."
(LoAR 30 Apr 89, p. 2) 
Coghlan, Ronan, Irish First Names "Coghlan is extremely
untrustworthy and should not be used." (Talan Gwynek, Millrind, Vol.
VIII, Issue 2, p. 3) 
Coghlan, Ronan, Ida Grehan and P.W. Joyce, Book of Irish Names "The
Book of Irish Names is an abysmal SCA source, particularly its
discussion of first names, which is a description of modern (20th
century) Irish naming practices." (Ensign [Cateline de la Mor la
souriete] LoC, 17 February 1996) 
Dellquest, Augustus Wilfrid, These Names of Ours: A Book of Surnames
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell) "Please add Augustus Wilfrid Dellquest's
These Names of Ours: A Book of Surnames... to the list of books that
are not acceptable as documentation." (LoAR 16 Sep 1995, p. 10) 
Dunkling, Leslie and William Gosling, The New American Dictionary of
First Names "The focus of the book is on recent English and American
usage, which reduces its usefulness to us..." (Cover Letter 29 Sep 85,
p. 3) 
Hanks and Hodges, Dictionary of First Names "Very few of the entries
have dates of any kind. There are many modern forms included in the
entries. There are even, as there are in many general works of this
kind, some errors, sometimes quite glaring." (LoAR Nov 1994, p. 20) 
Hanks and Hodges, Dictionary of Surnames "Very few of the entries
have dates of any kind. There are many modern forms included in the
entries. There are even, as there are in many general works of this
kind, some errors, sometimes quite glaring." (LoAR Nov 1994, p. 20) 
Kolatch, Alfred J., The Jonathan David Dictionary of First Names
"Kolatch, ... is notorious for its lack of interest in drawing
distinctions between traditional and modern names. (LoAR 25 Jan 87, p.
19). "As has been noted before, Kolatch is a modern baby-name book, and
as a source of information is completely unreliable." (LoAR 18 May 86,
p. 11) 
Loughead, Flora Gaines, Dictionary of Given Names "[I]t is worthless
for our purposes." (LoAR 16 Sep 95, p. 8). "[Loughead] is very
unreliable." (LoAR 29 Apr 90, p.15) 
Partridge, Eric, Name This Child: A Dictionary of Modern British and
American Given or Christian Names "Virtually no dates are given for any
names, which is problematic for our purposes..." (LoAR 31 Mar 90, p.3) 
Smith, Elsdon, New Dictionary of American Family Names "Elsdon
Smith's New Dictionary of American Family Names [is] a most
untrustworthy source." (LoAR Aug 92, p. 23) 
Wells, Evelyn, A Treasury of Names (also published under the title
What to Name the Baby "Wells ... is not a very good source." (LoAR 26
Mar 89, p. 1) 
Yonge, Charlotte, History of Christian Names "Yonge is no longer
considered a trustworthy source. Her main strength is the breadth of
languages she covered; for many of those languages (including French)
she has been superceded by by far more reliable works." (LoAR Sep 92,
p. 6) 
The New Age Baby Name Book 
Theresa Norman, Names through the Ages "The name lists are utterly unreliable." (Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, SCAHRLDS)

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