Download or read book American Surnames written by Elsdon Coles Smith and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1986 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surnames. We all have them, but whose names were they originally? Whose are they? What do they mean and where do they come from? Elsdon Smith, America's leading authority on names, is the one man who definitely knows, and his book, American Surnames, is designed to answer these questions and more ...