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Word: salways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illegitimate children. "Drunk census takers and bad penmanship can drive you insane!" says Rawlings, the Florida real estate broker. Lorraine St-Louis-Harrison, a Canadian genealogist, had a hard time tracing her French-speaking grandfather until she realized that an English census taker had transcribed St Louis as "Salway." Likewise, immigrants disembarking at Ellis Island found their names arbitrarily Anglicized. And some families, wanting to assimilate, did so later on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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