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From: "Dick Harris" <>
Subject: Re: Charles - Carl/Karl
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:14:07 -0400
References: <015001c135ce$c6d70540$c820f118@com>


It's as much the same name as John and Johann. It depended on whether the
family decided to anglicize the name or use it as was.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Mohney" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Charles - Carl/Karl


> Don't know about our German kin but my Swedish grgrgrgrandfather was Carl
> Olsson in Sweden and used Charles Olson here in the states.
>
> Donna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Fricke" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:29 AM
> Subject: Charles - Carl/Karl
>
>
> > I have seen comments on German naming practices before, but we have a
> > lineage problem which has remained unsolved due to a "change in names".
> >
> > In "Der Ahnenforscher", a newsletter from a New York German Genealogical
> > group, there is a reference to a man's name being CHARLES or CARL/KARL.
> >
> > Does anyone know if these two names were often substituted within a
family
> > group for the same person.?
> >
> > If it was a common practice, it might solve a huge problem in our own
> > research.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
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