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From: Rondina Muncy <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Name Variation, a name change or a priest who can't spell
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:00:51 -0500
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Nora,

Thanks to Kathy's re-post I was able to read your post about your Irish
names. (The original post still hasn't come through; what is Gmail doing,
vetting it?)

>Similar to your family name, I have been researching a family called
> Langan and found them in a US census as Lanning. I would also expect to
> find them as Lanigan. My own father heard his family name pronounced
> "Gallivan" when he visited his ancestral home. My great-grandfather
> Cornelius Archdeacon was listed as Conorls Schegan (by a German-surnamed
> enumerator) in Cincinnati in 1880, 5 years after his arrival from County
> Cork. (Try finding that with a search engine!)

I can't help by think that this name will eventually end up being spelled
"Shenanigan."

Rondina

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