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From: "W. David Samuelsen" <>
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Company's Coming .....
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:51:09 -0600
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wrote:
> Has anyone with Scandinvavian descent figured out what we can do with
> duplicate names when there isn't enough information in the matches that show up
> to have a realistic clue as to whether they really ARE duplicates or not?
> Some have so little information, it's hard to know if they were intended to
> be "mine" or somebody else's match. Too many Ols Olesson's I guess with
> no dates or places attached, and I am sure the problem is very similar in
> Denmark and Norway.

Do tell!. I have enough problems with the Danish as it is.

> And as a convert, I have to go quite a way back to find a common ancestor
> with someone else who's in the Church on any of my lines.

I wonder.... because just last week I discovered quite a number of 2nd
and 3rd cousins while helping a friend of mine last week. She never
heard of those on her mother's side. Her mother was an agnostic non-LDS.

Never know the surprises might be much closer than you think.

David Samuelsen

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