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Re: OT: Anthroponymics

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, October 21, 2005, 19:55
Back on the island where my father's mother came from I
went by _Ingeborg's Bertil's Benct_, i.e. I was identified
as my grandmother's grandson and my father's son.  Surnames
were not really used to identify locals.

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