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INTRODUCTION TO SURNAMES - Page 2© Christine Sievers
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Oct 9, 1998
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Next week: Using the Soundex when researching your surnames. (Other articles in the surname series will include adoption, surname search engines, and posting your surname on message boards.)
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Hi. I just started looking for my ancestors and was wondering if you could help me or guide me in the right direction. What I know is that 5 brothers(the Kelly brothers)came over to the USA in 1717.
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Daniel, In highschool I tried out for track and the coach advised me to join the chess club instead. I was blessed with quite a muscular body and in those days was quite tall (today I am almost a mid ...
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I meant to say, Gerald Scheel, your explanation of your name has brightened a day or two for me. Good work. Ever tried throwing the javelin in track? ;-)Dan Ellsworth (
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Right, Christine, including ace pilot Eddie Richenbacker, who had his name changed to the way we know it now, Rickenbacker. "He's taken the Hun out of his name," was the approvin ...
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Christine Sievers
csievers@concentric.net Daniel, Right on. It is interesting to realize that so many German names (most of my ancestry is German) were changed to fit the English ear, when at ...
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