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Re: Genana
Well there's gneiss, which is a kind of rock! And I think you get place names starting with Gn in the south - Schwaben and Switzerland and such. But I agree, it does look odd ... if it was a Ger- name, plain sailing! Any chance of bad h andwriting in the records??
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I don't think so, because I have seen it many times, on different people, places, periods... But it had many forms: Gnanna, Genana, and nicknames like Gnendel, Genendil.... It's really strange, uh?
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