Influence of Changes in Political Barriers and of Geographic Distance on Kinship Inferred from Surnames and Migration Data in Olivenza, Spain, and Surrounding Portuguese Areas

Román-Busto, Jorge

doi:10.13110/humanbiology.87.2.0122

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“…Patronymic data are frequently used for studies in historical demography (see, for example, Darlu, 2004;Longley et al, 2007;Roman-Busto, 2015), evolutionary anthropology (Prost et al, 2008;Cheshire et al, 2011), and population genetics (King et al, 2006;Darlu et al, 2012;Martinez-Cadenas et al, 2016). Among the underlying assumptions common to this type of study are the single origin of each family name (often unverified) and the stability of its spelling over generations within a population.…”

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Intergenerational Analysis of Patronymic Transformations in the Quebec (Canada) Population Since the Seventeenth Century

Tremblay

2017

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Surnames may undergo several transformations over time. Thus, patronymic distributions observed in a population at a given time may hide changes that occurred previously, the extent of which can be estimated with intergenerational data. Using a corpus of 5,100 deep-rooted ascending genealogies from the Quebec (Canada) population, this study compares contemporary surnames with those of founding ancestors in each paternal line and identifies various patronymic mutations occurring over multiple generations. On average, paternal lines go back eight generations. About one third of all paternal lines presented at least one orthographic difference between the contemporary and the original surnames. Many surnames were transformed several times in a single paternal line, and some changes were different for a given surname along different lines. Most changes occurred among the first generations following the founding ancestors. Regional comparisons also show important variations.

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