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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Disc number (section Project Surname)
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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Simonie Michael (section Project Surname)
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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Abe Okpik (section Project Surname)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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given name and a surname. Dimitri/Dimitry may also refer to: Dimitri (Joncières), 1876 French opera Codename for the video game Project Milo Dimitri Peak...
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Northwest Territories Legislative Council, he later (1968-1971) headed Project Surname which replaced disc numbers with names The Necessities of Life, a film...
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