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From: "D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] patronymic Jessen
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 13:05:03 -0700
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At 12:52 PM 5/4/2006 -0700, you wrote:

>Jensen is a name with which I'm familiar where I was born and raised, and
>I've not seen Jessen before. Just a thought it might be Jensen, maybe.

Worth looking at, for the OP, but I have records where there's definitely a
Jensen and a Jessen both, so it may be accurately spelled in the record she
has.

One patronymic I hadn't heard of before I started working on my family
history was Momsen. I had it on my great-grandmother's marriage certificate
from Nebraska but for some time I thought it was sloppy handwriting for
Monsen. But Momsen it was, the daughter of a Momme Ebsen. Momme still
strikes me as an unusual name.

Regards,
D.
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