I am writing a computer application to check to see if one name is a
nickname match of another - i.e. 'Rick' is a match to 'Richard'.  I
will then transfer this list of names into a SQL Server 2000 database.
 I have a small scale version working already - and I have found that
the best way is to have "group_no"'s and "names".  For example, the
table might look like this:


Group_no         Names
________         _____

1                Richard
1                Rick
1                Dick
1                Ric
2                Steve
2                Steven
2                Stephen
3                Abe
3                Abraham
3                Abram

etc...


The problem is that I am looking for an exhaustive list of nicknames
and can't seem to find one.  The closer the researcher finds to the
format of *groups* of names (i.e. what I've shown above), the better. 
I currently have 438 groups of names in my database - but I need a
much, much bigger set than that.

Thank you,
Lazer

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Clarification of Question by reblazer-ga on 02 Sep 2003 15:42 PDT

Tutuzdad,

http://www.genealogytoday.com/genealogy/enoch/nicknames.html
   are exactly the names I already have in the database.

Some of the other links look like good sources of some more names. 
But the main goal here is to have as many as possible in my database -
so they will need to be gathered all together.  Also, Asian nicknames
are very important.

So, now that you know what I do have in my database already, do you
have a way to gather them together from these various sites?  If so,
please answer away!  :-)

Thanks,
Lazer

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Clarification of Question by reblazer-ga on 03 Sep 2003 07:19 PDT

Just to further clarify - the answer I am looking for is specifically
in the form of a text-type of table - exactly like the one I have
above - but exhaustive - and with Asian nicknames, too, if at all
possible.

Thanks again,
Lazer

Dear reblazer-ga:

Not knowing what you aleady have, please examine these links and see
if they are suitable to answer your question. If so, I'd be happy to
close the question for you.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

COMMON NICKNAMES USED BY OUR ANCESTORS
http://genealogy.about.com/library/bl_nicknames.htm

GENEALOGY TODAY
http://www.genealogytoday.com/genealogy/enoch/nicknames.html

GENEALOGY
http://www.maxpages.com/ourlostfamily/Nicknames

ROOTSWEB – FEMALE NICKNAMES
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/surnm/nn/nn_female.html

ROOTSWEB – MALE NICKNAMES
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/surnm/nn/nn_male.html

USGENNET
http://www.tngennet.org/franklin/frannick.htm

USGENWEB – NICKNAMES
http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/nicknames.html

CONNECTICUT STATE LIBRARY – 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY NICKNAMES
http://www.cslib.org/nickname.htm

18TH CENTURY PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN NICKNAMES
http://www.kerchner.com/nickname.htm

NICKNAMES AND THEIR POSSIBLE FULL NAMES
http://www.veritasinfo.com/nick.htm

BOOK OF NAME, NICKNAMES AND EQUIVALENTS
http://www.fortklock.com/namesnickname.htm

Here's one list, but you probably already have most of these:
http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/nicknames.html