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From: Sam Sloan <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] NPE
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:08:19 -0700
References: <mailman.2049.1313376290.30809.genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com><4E49BE8C.20000@storm.ca>
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Right! and I cannot believe that you do not know this.

In Iceland family names are still only rarely used. My ancestry is
Swedish and most of my Swedish ancestors did not start using family
names until they came to America in the 1860s.

Sam Sloan

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Martin Potter <> wrote:
> Anne M Berge wrote :
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>> Being Scandinavian, family names are irrelevant to us in that matter ...
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> Anne, are you saying that family names might have been only recently
> adopted in (some) Scandinavian countries??
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> If so, that might explain a little problem that I have in one of my
> projects.  But I await your reply.
>
> ... Martin
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