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From: Tina Sansone <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Need Help with Occupation on Census
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:10:06 -0700 (PDT)


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Last name origin & meaning:
German (Träger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Träger, Yiddish treger, agent derivatives of Middle High German tragen ‘to carry’, hence an occupational name for someone who carried a load, a peddler or porter, or, in the case of the German name, a legal guardian or guarantor.




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