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Ivan, Johann, Giovanni, Zuane, John and Joannes are one name. Choose a given name or a surname, type any form you have met, and see every other way a clerk, a priest or an index wrote it.
A search that tries only the form on the family tree misses the register: the same man is Joannes in the baptism, Zuane to the neighbours, Giovanni to the civil clerk and John on the ship's list. Forms in plain type have been met on a record by one of the family archives; forms marked ° are the right form in that language and a thing to search, never yet seen. A slip, written once by mistake, is listed apart and is not a spelling.
89 names · 701 forms · 462 met in these records, 239 as lookup aids.
The forms come from the family archives' own registers, and each carries the evidence behind it in the
catalogue, data/given-name-families.json. Nothing about a person is kept. The data is free to reuse:
given-names.json.
Surnames are spelt by the clerk, not the family: Defranceschi in one register is De Franceschi in the next. Each form below carries one of five claims and says what it rests on. Case, spacing, hyphens and apostrophes are never counted as spellings; an accent is, because a priest's Lereña is not a clerk's Lerena.
64 families · 225 forms, each with the evidence behind it. Browse every family.
The whole list, with each family's evidence, is on the spellings of a name. Nothing about a person is kept in either catalogue.