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German name discovery...

11/25/2014

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I was working on a project for a client recently and was having difficulty finding basic records that I felt should have been easy to find. The person's name was Fritz and I hadn't found him consistently in census or other public records. As I did a little more searching I stumbled across the fact that Fritz is short for Friedrich, which is Fred in our United States. This opened up some doors to find many of those documents I had been expecting to see.

This seems like a really simple solution that I should have been on top of from the start, but my experience is certainly not as good in German, though I am learning! I guess the moral of the story is to remember the variants of names as you start digging! Here's a nice link to some German names and their variants. http://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/german

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Hazel Myers link
4/11/2021 01:47:54 pm

Thanks for writing this

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