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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket - as issued. Complete 3 Volume Hardcover Set, 1995 Picton Press 2084 pages (pagination continues in each volume. Near Fine,no DJ - as issued. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to blue cloth boards with gilt titles - corners sharp. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. For an impressive 55 years Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz has dominated the landscape of Swiss genealogical research like a benevolent giant. First published in two volumes in 1940, at a time when a turbulent world made the importance of being Swiss self-evident, Familiennamenbuch was next published in a six volume edition in 1969 and then in a final three volume edition in 1989. It is the newest, final, edition which we have reprinted as the American edition, complete with a new Preface on Swiss genealogy and on the importance of Familiennamenbuch by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, CG. These volumes contain every surname now found in Switzerland, a total of 48,500 surnames arranged alphabetically, together with information giving exactly in which Heimat or community the surnames enjoy hereditary rights of citizenship. Roughly half of these surnames were established in Switzerland prior to 1800 (often in the Middle Ages); the other 24,500 surnames have settled in Switzerland since 1800. A superb set. ISBN-0897252063. LOC SS-FB-02.…