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    What’s In A Name?

    1794 Petition of Jacob Burkholder Do you have ancestors whose surnames were mangled in a variety of ways? Most of us do. Spelling wasn’t exact prior to 1900 and clerks often recorded names as they heard them. Often our ancestors

    Howard Cameron June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

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