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In response to "My older sister has really done all of the digging and tracked everything. She’s thought about writing a book. She and her half-sisters get together" by pmb

awesome! I have turned out to be the family historian so this is my job. -- (edited)

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Dec 15 '21, 20:01

thru ancestry documentation, learned the origin of my last name, which has been a complete mystery with wrong oral histories. It's a rare name, about 300 people in the US and 65 in Germany. Maybe 20 or so in Denmark. There's an alternate spelling we were COMPLETELY unaware of, which is a double L, and the numbers of people with that spelling are equivalent to the spelling we know, in Germany and the US. There's also a small group in Australia with the double L.

I am very happy I was able to tell my dad and aunt the real origin. It's northern Germany very close to Denmark.

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Interesting. It's all pretty fascinating, but I also find it sort of daunting myself. I'm glad my sister's done it, but I think it would be sort of - pmb Dec 15, 20:12 2
- in my case I would not say overwhelming. Just have to get off my ass and write it. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 20:39 1
  - I would think it might be overwhelming for pmb because it's his father, not unknown cousins -- nm - jnine Dec 15, 22:32

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awesome! I have turned out to be the family historian so this is my job. -- (edited)

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