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Re: 1800s america's names rambling
You have to remember the literacy rate was pretty low overall in those days, and extremely low in certain demographics, and a lot of the time names we would think of today as creative are just the parents' best guesses as to how a name was spelled.Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
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