The Book of Ulster Surnames

quick delivery and good shape

I bought this book for my father. He seemed to like it and used it for a while. It is a good book for researching names.

Was a perfect gift for my wife who likes to look up family names.

Tracing your ancestors is a time consuming, sometimes frustrating task, but this book helps cut through some of the work by giving you a pointer in the right direction. If it sounds Irish, take a look here and find out.

A gently used book as described. Came on time. Appreciate the ease of finding used and out of print books on Amazon. Lots of useful info about the origins of surnames for Those with Irish ancestry

Great book of names from Ulster, comes in handy for brick walls.. A must have for any Ulster researcher. Thanks

This book is the right arm for folks attempting to do genealogical research in Ulster. It only covers the top names and it generally uses the "definitive" resources for these names, though in some cases he does include local information. Those wishing additional information on Scottish, Irish, or English names needs to use his bibliography to start researching those in greater detail. The most important aspect of this book is that he shows that often a surname in Ulster can be of Scottish, Irish, or English background. Ie genealogical research is required to determine family origin. You won't learn it by looking it up in a book. However if you think the family is Scottish and find it in a Scottish surname book, you may be misled entirely because the name is also Irish. Or English.For less common names, buy the CD with Griffiths Index and look it up yerself. This is very easy. You can also other all Irish CDs, for those who object to going to a library. Often the experts who write these books used indexes like Griffiths in composing their books. These resources are now available to us. IGI can be a bit misleading for surnames in Ireland because it doesn't have enough Irish sources to provide an objective look. Griffiths and the Tithe Applotment indexes are generally used.Linda Merle (Admin - Scotch Irish list on rootsweb)

This book is about average, with quite a few small discrepancies. The author confuses locations of many Anglo-Scottish Border Clans. For example, he makes no mention of the fact that the Grahams were more numerous on the English side of the Border than the Scottish. He does the same with many other English Riding Clans.Some of his surname histories are quite confusing. He mentions the use of the surname Scott as a personal name in England, which has nothing to do with the surname Scott in Ireland. He gives histories of many names, but does not directly say how or if these histories apply these surnames as they appear in Ireland. He may mention the appearance of surnames in other countries, but doesn't say the surname in question came from that country.It's a fair book, it may or may not help you out.

It is a very good book and will provide good information for anyone researching Ulster surnames. They aren't all there but a lot of them are. I did buy the Kindle version to get it quicker and thought it would be good to be able to do searches for names etc. It isn't great for that and doesn't always go to the correct page from the index of surnames for example. On that basis I would recommend the hardcopy book. Still giving it 5* as the content is what matters.

does what it says in the title

Excellent book, arrived well wrapped and quickly. Would recommend it to anyone who is interested in surname origins and where they are historically found

this is an excellent book which i have spent many happy hours studing,invaluable to any one interested in their family history many thanks

brilliant thanks