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From: "Donna Suarez" <>
Subject: Re: Suarez--info and question
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 06:33:12 -0700


Very good point. I think there far too much of a tendency to try to show
that all people with a common name are related to each. It just isn't so.
I have enough trouble tracing my ancestors back to the 17th century much
less the ninth.

Donna

NiCubano wrote in message
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What is a Visigothic surname? I have never seen one.

Surnames were only started to be used in the XII century, and then they were
only patronymic surnames, like Suares, Fernandez, Hernandez, Martinez,
Perez;
which mean son of Suero, son of Fernan or Hernan, son of Martin, son of Per
or
Pedro.

You can not say that any of this surnames had a common trunk. That is like
saying that all the Smiths are related.

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