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Edited February 27, 2021 at 5:25 AM
Surname Origins
Many people researching their family surname - often just kind of assume - there is just one surname origin for a given family name and that most people by that surname share a common ancestor or common link.
Actually that is far from the truth.
This is a good link n the subject
Name origin book and reports should be used with caution and with a grain of salt.
and they all so often merely group a bunch f similarly spelled names together and imply they must all be related and have the same common origin.
Trust you own research (of primary records that clearly belong to your specific branch) - much more than you trust some (often wild guess) in some name origin book.
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