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Help[Facts] Re: What is this name?
in reply to a message by HanaB
The document which that small image comes from was all very clearly written, except for that one name which I guess is "Joannes."
It is difficult to say whether it was a Cyrillic alphabet or a Polish variant of a Latin alphabet "they" first learned. They all seem to come from two or three countries at the same time.
I am more of an American than a Russian, so a Russian's Latin letters would appear strange to me. There is an other difficult name that I forgot all about. I will post it soon.
It is difficult to say whether it was a Cyrillic alphabet or a Polish variant of a Latin alphabet "they" first learned. They all seem to come from two or three countries at the same time.
I am more of an American than a Russian, so a Russian's Latin letters would appear strange to me. There is an other difficult name that I forgot all about. I will post it soon.
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Well, I don't know about the people who wrote the document, but the names don't sound very Russian to me. I don't know; maybe they could easily be Germans. There were many Germans in Latvia and Estonia, so maybe there were some around Minsk as well?
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http://i28.tinypic.com/2podqmp.jpg
Here it is. What do you suppose this one to be? I think it is trying to be some Slavic variant of "Pauline."
Here it is. What do you suppose this one to be? I think it is trying to be some Slavic variant of "Pauline."
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I see, and enough clearly, Parascevia, which is unusual, but not unheard (Parascevia is the Latinised form):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraskevi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraskevi
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