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Re: may be related
Posted by: William Roop (ID *****7731) Date: April 26, 2007 at 17:53:18
In Reply to: may be related by Anna (Rupe) Stumpf of 429

Most people back then could not read and write, so they knew what their name sounded like, but they could not spell it. So, family names did change a bit because clerks had to guess the spelling.


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