• Project Surname was a project enacted by the Northwest Territories Council and Government of Canada to assign surnames to Inuit. Project Surname was also...
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  • A surname DNA project is a genetic genealogy project which uses genealogical DNA tests to trace male lineage. In most cultures, there are few or no matrilineal...
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    1969, the government started Project Surname, headed by Abe Okpik, to replace number-names with patrilineal "family surnames". A popular belief exists that...
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  • replace the disc numbers with names and Abe Okpik was appointed to Project Surname. From 1968 to 1971, Okpik toured the NWT and northern Quebec (Nunavik)...
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    system that was used in place of surnames for Inuit, and with prompting the government to authorise Project Surname to replace the numbers with names...
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    A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with...
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    Hu (胡) is a Chinese surname. In 2006, it was the 15th most common surname in China. In 2013, it was the 13th most common in China, with 13.7 million Chinese...
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  • disc numbers with last names under Project Surname. Okpik, whose disc number was "W3-554", was picked to head the project. From 1968 until 1971, Okpik visited...
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    Smith is an occupational surname originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada,...
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  • (1904–1967), the American physicist who headed the Manhattan Project. Other notable people with the surname include: Alan Oppenheimer (born 1930), American film...
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    federal Liberal candidate for Nunavut Abe Okpik, politician, worked on Project Surname to obtain family names for Inuit rather than disc numbers and first...
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  • game Magic: The Gathering Ping (given name) Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles Ping (nickname)...
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  • Hui is a surname. It is the Hanyu Pinyin spelling of two Chinese surnames (惠 and 回), as well as a variant spelling of two others (許 Xǔ and 費 Fèi). The...
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  • Scottish surnames are surnames currently found in Scotland, or surnames that have a historical connection with the country. The earliest surnames found in...
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  • records. In the mid-1960s Project Surname began, and, headed by Abe Okpik, Inuit were given surnames in a similar manner to how surnames were used among Canadians...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khan (/xɑːn/) is an ancient Indo-European surname and in the variant of 'Khan' of Mongolic origin, used as a title in various...
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  • open-source CNC router project Maslov, a Russian surname Maslova Pristan, an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast, Russia Maslo, a surname Maslow's hammer...
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  • refer to: Ngô (吴), a Vietnamese surname equivalent to Chinese name Ng or Wu Wu (surname), Ngo in Hokkien Ao (surname), Ngo in Cantonese Ngo, a district...
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  • English-language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. It is one of the most common surnames in English-speaking...
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  • (1918-2011), wife of Stanislaw Ulam, part of the Manhattan Project team This page lists people with the surname Ulam. If an internal link intending to refer to a...
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  • The Genographic Project, launched on 13 April 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, was a genetic anthropological study (sales discontinued...
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  • Kang (redirect from Kang (surname))
    the Eastern Jin Dynasty Kang (Chinese surname), a Chinese surname (康) Kang (Korean surname), a common Korean surname (강; 姜) C.S. Eliot Kang (born 1962),...
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    Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and spearheaded Project Surname to replace disc numbers Rick Rivet, Sahtu–Métis Neo-Expressionist painter...
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  • This article contains lists of the most common surnames in most of the countries of Europe, including Armenia, Kosovo, and five transcontinental countries...
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    The surnames McCabe (Irish: Mac Cába) and MacCabe (/məˈkeɪb/ muh-KAYB) are Irish and Scottish surnames. McCabes are considered to have moved from the Western...
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    Chinese-language surname. The name is first in the Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the emperor's surname of...
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  • Japanese form of two Japanese surnames, Ohara (小原 or 尾原) and Ōhara (大原, also Oohara). Notable people with either surname include: Chiaki Ohara, pianist...
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  • Operation Canned Goods), a Nazi Germany false flag project This page lists people with the surname Himmler. If an internal link intending to refer to...
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  • educator, founder of the Wind Repertory Project Pilato (disambiguation) This page lists people with the surname Pilato. If an internal link intending to...
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    the free dictionary. Kock is a surname literally meaning "cook" in some languages. Notable people with this surname include: Annuar Kock, Aruban footballer...
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