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Moldova

Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences



Netherlands

Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam

Over voornamen (did not work on 11 March 2009)


New Zealand

Land Information New Zealand / Toitu te Whenua (did not work on 11 March 2009)


Norway

The Documentation Project - a Norwegian project which was given the task of transferring various collections of Norwegian language and culture from paper to computers (concluded in 1997)

Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitenskap, University of Oslo

Norwegian Farm Names - searchable version of Oluf Rygh's Norwegian farm names, currently covering vols 1-17

Norwegian Name Society

Statens kartverk (National Land Survey)

 

Romance linguistic area

Patronymica Romanica: Dictionnaire historique de l'anthroponymie romane

Romance onomastics (Orbis latinus)


Russia

TORIS - Toponymic Research Information System (Karelia)

Southern Africa

Names Society of Southern Africa

Onomastic Studies Unit, School of Language, Culture and Communication, Pietermaritzburg


Scandinavia

Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (Dictionary of Proto-Scandinavian Personal Names) (did not work on 8 November 2007)

Nordic Cooperative Committee for Onomastic Research (NORNA) (did not work on 8 November 2007)

Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (Dictionary of Nordic Runic Names)

The Nordic Place-name Database Group


Spain

Academia de la Llingua Asturiana

Societat d'Onomàstica. (did not work on 11 March 2009)


Sweden

Institutet for sprak och folkminnen Namnavdelningen (Institute for Language and Folklore Research, Department of Onomastics), Uppsala

National Land Survey

Ordbok över Sveriges medeltida personnamn, SMP (did not work on 8 November 2007)

Statistics Sweden - search first names and surnames


Switzerland

Projet ONOMA "Au pays des noms de lieux" - DTS "Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses (Université de Neufchatel)
Datenbank der Schweizer Namenbücher
Forschungsstelle für Namenkunde
I toponimi nell'interazione sociale 

 

United Kingdom

Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester

The English Place-Name Society (EPNS)

Guild of One-Name Studies

Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham

Ordnance Survey (the national mapping agency)

Place-Name Research Centre, University of Wales, Bangor

Resources for surname study

The Scottish Place-Name Society (did not work on 11 March 2009)

Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland

Thesaurus of British Surnames (ToBS)

Ulster Place-Name Society 


 

USA

American Name Society (ANS)

Barry Popik's web-site (New York)

Cleveland Evans' home-page (baby-names) (did not work on 11 March 2009)

Council of Geographic Names Authorities (provides links to the Geographic Names Authorities for each of the 50 States)

Given Name Frequency Project

The Lurline Coltharp Collection of Onomastics

RootsWeb

Social Security Administration (inf. on US baby-names)

US Board on Geographic Names

 

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