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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/BP 8^)
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/ B.Philip Jonsson
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