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methodman

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6. Many immigrants during certain decades also changed spellings in their name.

Reply to LeighAnn (Original post)

Sat Aug 18, 2012, 03:40 PM

Aug 2012

During certain decades certain countries were not liked in certain states so the immigrants many times changed their names to a more favorable country spelling. This is real. How do you account for that?

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