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The article discusses the book written by Kinga Banderowicz “The Surnames of Poznań New Citizens Based on the Register of Acceptance into a Municipal Law (1573–1793)” against the Polish regional monographs of the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. It also raises the problem of traditional dual structure of monographs (history and etymology dictionary, analytic and synthetic section), used by various authors and the new one (semantic and structural section, onomastics and sociological section) used by the above mentioned author.