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From: Michael Maxfield< >
Subject: Surname spelling/pronounciation assistance please.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 04:38:57 GMT


A person contacted me some time back about a family of hers which she
believes may have come from a village I am researching. Since I have
the film for that village's church on indefinate loan at LDS, I offered
to look for her lines. The only surname which came anywhere close to
hers, was written in old script (which is why I didn't recall any name
similar from memory... I know most of that film), but it is NOT the
common spelling one would associate with the surname she had, although
I forwarded it to her anyway.

I believe she has dismissed the entries which I found as not being the
name she is looking for. I'm not so sure though... I was going through
that film again this evening and came across that name again, and it is
still bugging me... bugging me enough that I have to ask even though it
doesn't relate to my lines (part of the 20% of that village which doesn't).

The name I get from the script is OHX. (or OHC, OHE) Looks sort of like Ole.

I have a few tracings of various entries at:

http://www.io.com/~tweek/tmp/ohx.jpg (about 10k)

I guess I have two questions:

- Is there a commonly accepted name which is represented by the name
written in the script. A name which is still (at 1700) written in
an old style/spelling even though it was considerably different in
pronounciation then?

- How would the name, as written in the entries (traced), be pronounced?

I'm refraining from posting the surname being looked for at this time so
as to not influence any answers. I already have myself come to the
conclusion that "Yeah, I guess it could be pronounced like that, sort of."
I'll perhaps post it in a day or so.


Thanks,
Mike

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