Difference between revisions of "Sources of Surname Data"
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==Olympic Athletes== | ==Olympic Athletes== | ||
| − | The Olympic Athletes data was taken from the relevant pages on [http://www.wikipedia.org/ wikipedia]. Local copies of all of the individual country pages from the 2004 Summer Games were retrieved by [[script]] ([http://www.edegan.com/Olympics-RetrievePageURLs.pl Olympics-RetrievePageURLs.pl]) that used an offline version ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Olympics-OfflineSource.html Olympics-OfflineSource.html]) of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nations_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics the wikipedia Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics page]. This script also constructs a list of countries | + | The Olympic Athletes data was taken from the relevant pages on [http://www.wikipedia.org/ wikipedia]. Local copies of all of the individual country pages from the 2004 Summer Games were retrieved by [[script]] ([http://www.edegan.com/Olympics-RetrievePageURLs.pl Olympics-RetrievePageURLs.pl]) that used an offline version ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Olympics-OfflineSource.html Olympics-OfflineSource.html]) of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nations_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics the wikipedia Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics page]. This script also constructs a list of participating countries ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Olympics-ParticipatingCountries.txt Olympics-ParticipatingCountries.txt]). |
==World Leaders== | ==World Leaders== | ||
Revision as of 19:20, 22 June 2009
We are primarily interested in sources of surname data that contain both surnames and countries of birth for surnames.
Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Olympic Athletes
The Olympic Athletes data was taken from the relevant pages on wikipedia. Local copies of all of the individual country pages from the 2004 Summer Games were retrieved by script (Olympics-RetrievePageURLs.pl) that used an offline version (Olympics-OfflineSource.html) of the wikipedia Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics page. This script also constructs a list of participating countries (Olympics-ParticipatingCountries.txt).
