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From: Phillip Little <>
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] Losing my mind...
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:20:45 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <41990F44.3030901@chartermi.net>


Hi Susan:
The Kleins of Germany and/or Switzerland changed their names to Little as they established the town of Littlestown, Adams Co., PA. Klein and Little both mean little or small. Phil Little, KS

Susan McIntyre <> wrote:
There was a recent discussion on the Frederick Co. MD list regarding the
accuracy of many of the published Historical & Biographical books. It
was very wisely pointed out that the accuracy is occasionally based on
"the point of view (and abilities) of the researcher" and "traditional
factors" such as oral history of an area or family (not always verified
by documentation).

I personally am researching the Alexander family in Frederick Co. MD who
one would assume were originally from the UK but beginning in the mid
1700's are found in the German Church Records. This leaves me wondering
if they were originally German (immigrated from UK?) or perhaps on
arrival in America they married into a German family and chose to follow
the wife's religion. The church records show names appearing to be
German but you have to realize that the person recording the information
was influenced by their (and the churches) German background. So as the
surnames in later records were changed to English spellings (Jung to
Young, Mueller to Miller, etc) perhaps the names in earlier records were
changed to the German spellings ((Henry to Henrich, George to Jorg, etc).

That is just my confused view on the subject but I can recommend using
any publication, oral history or online site ONLY as a guide to look for
documentation.

Good Luck in your research.



wrote:

>I have always been told that my FARROW line was of English Descent. Then a
>ancestor's bio said Scots-Irish which made sense since a "Fighting John
>Farrow" arrived in the colonies was Scotch Irish. But now...
>
>In Scharf's History of Western Maryland he states;
>
>His father (Nathaniel) and mother (Mary Mccall) were natives of Maryland, and
>were descended respectively from French and German ancestry...now I ask you,
>which name is French and which is German?
>
>McCall sounds Irish to me...what am I missing here?
>
>Also, I see several other errors in the passages, date of death for Nathan is
>1860 as per his stone and death notice yet Scharf states it was 1859, and it
>states Mary is living with her son Henry Clay Farrow in Garrett City Ind when
>she never lived there...she was in Martinsburg WVA.
>
>Any help?
>
>Terri Farrow
>OHIO
>--
>
>
>


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