Book #1 The Scottish Nation Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honors, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland Vol. 1, 2, 3 Vol. 1 Abe – Cur Vol. 2 Dal – Mac Vol. 3 Macintyre to Zett + supplement By William Anderson, 1867 780, +775 , +760 pages, indexed, searchable, illustrated Book #2 A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames With Special American Instances By Charles Wareing Bardsley, 1901 855 pages, indexed Bonus Book #3 History of Christian Names By Charlotte M. Yonge, 1905 650+ pages ************************************************************************* Digital EBook CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View ************************************************************************* $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Surnames-Collection-3-Books-5-Volumes-3-500-pages-/200330393470?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ea49f377e It is strange how little has been written upon the sources and significations of our English surnames. Of books of Peerage, of Baronetage, and of Landed Gentry we are not without a sufficiency; but of books purporting to treat of the ordinary surnames that greet our eye—of these there are but few. Surnames, we must remember, were the simple result of necessity when population, hitherto isolated and small, became so increased as to necessitate further particularity than the merely personal one could supply. One name, therefore, was all that was needed in early times, and one name, as a general rule, is all that we find. The purely Roman citizen had a threefold name. The first denoted the 'pr&nomen,' and answered to our personal, or baptismal, name. The second was what we may term the clan-name; and the third, the cognomen, corresponded with our present surname. For the sake of further distinction I will place all names formally and under concise headings:— 1. Baptismal or personal names. 2. Local surnames. 3. Official surnames. 4. Occupative surnames. 5. Sobriquet surnames, or Nicknames.