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NOTES ON THE NAME "POOT" AND DUTCH NAMING TRADITIONS

Background on each family name and its spelling variations came from the Meertens
Institute in the Netherlands. They have also published "Die Reportorium van
Familienamen" based upon a detailed study of the 1947 census of the Netherlands. Their
website is: www.meertens.knaw.nl

The spelling variations of the family names were copied from the family records located in
several different Netherlands archives.

Maps showing the geographic distribution of surnames in the Netherlands are from
counts of 1993 telephone directory entries published at: www.familienaam.nl

HISTORICAL PERSONS WITH THE NAME OF "POOT"

Some historical names came from the Meertens Institute, a history and genealogy center
in the Netherlands. Web site: www.meertens.nl
Some Poots were found in the DBNL digital library of literature of the Netherlands and
from national biography books in that library. Web site: www.dbnl.nl

Additional references to Poots came from university library catalogs, especially the Free
University of Amsterdam, founded by separatist religious leader Abraham Kuyper.

Ray Poat information came from the www.Baseball-Almanac.com and the
www.BaseballLibrary.com

CURRENT POOTS OF SOME INTEREST

Contemporary Poots were found via internet searches and in the Netherlands National
Biography and in library catalogs of universities in the Netherlands. Biographical listings
were also found in Marquis' Who's Who in the World.

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