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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6540028, member: 110350&quot;]The study of names (particularly given names) is known as onomastics, and there have been quite a few historical onomastic studies that have been extremely useful in tracing the migrations of various ethnic groups and peoples, since names and naming patterns tend to persist longer, especially in endogamous groups, than the use of the particular languages from which such names originate.&nbsp; For example, the tracing of the immediate antecedents of the earliest Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, in the late 9th and the 10th century, to Northern France (in the Carolingian era) rather than directly to Italy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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