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Subject: Re: PABEDFOR-D Digest V01 #182
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:58:06 EDT

In a message dated 9/5/01 1:03:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:


> 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
>
If I remember my HS German correctly, Carl/Karl is what is used for Charles
in German.


Abbie

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DEFFIBAUGH/BROWN/FEATHERS/CUTSHALL/MELLOTT/HAMMOND/GREENE/LOCKE

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