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Meanings of Surnames Surname meanings refer to the literal meaning of a last name or the origins of that name. Several examples follow on the definitions of last names and surnames. Adams - comes from Hebrew; means red, earthy, or man. Other related names include Adies and Adamson. Babcock - thought to come from an abbreviation of Bartholomew; little or small cock (rooster). Cabel - French or Celtic origins; related to Cabeau. Dabney - named after a small municipality in Normandy; believed to be a derivation of D’Aubinge. Eastwick - old English origins; belonging to the East Place or town of Eastwick. Fullerton - named after a town where cloth is made. Gaskell - Gaelic origins, meaning valorous. Hadley - English origins; related to the town of Suffolk or Essex and also means wood or field. Ingham - named after a town that sits on lower ground such as a pasture. Jackson - English origins; means the son of John or Jack. Langton - means a long and oval shaped town or hill. Palmer - English origins; meaning a pilgrim.
Project Gutenberg The Quaker Corner: Our Quaker Heritage Cheska's Beals Family - by Cheska Wheatley Beals Family of Katie Bond The Beals Family by Bill Putnam Descendants of John Beals - by John Beals JTRs Colorful Families A Genealogical Record of The Beals Family from 1660 to the Present Time Written in 1910 by Jacob Beals Jacob, Son of Thomas Beals or his Brother John? Climbing Jacob's Ladder (looking for a Jacob Beals?) Thomas Beals, First Friends Minister in Ohio by Harlow Lindley, other notes by JTR The Family of John & Margaret (Hunt) Beals including John's near death experience! Information as Thing - JASIS 1991 This is a preprint of an article published in the Journal of the American Society of Information Science 42:5 (June 1991): 351-360, published for the American Society for Information Science by Wiley and available online to ASIS members and other registered users at This text may vary slightly from the published version. Similar discussion occurs in the authors Information and Information Systems (Greenwood Press, 1991; Paperback: Praeger). by Michael Buckland, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 Abstract Three meanings of "information" are distinguished: "Information-as-process"; "information-as-knowledge"; and "information-as-thing", the attributive use of "information" to denote things regarded as informative. 1. 2. 3. A key characteristic of "information-as-knowledge" is that it is intangible: one cannot touch it or measure it in any direct way. (1) Between entities and processes; and Data
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