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Re: Why did they change their name to Turnquist??? Gust and Maria Turnquist
Posted by: jennifer curl (ID *****2411)	Date: March 28, 2010 at 20:07:55
In Reply to: Why did they change their name to Turnquist??? Gust and Maria Turnquist by Jennifer Derksen	of 26

I had once heard that too many people from Sweden were trying to enter this country with the last name Johnson. Because of this, they had their last names changed to names containing -quist.

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