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Originally Posted by SoCalGirl
For all you who are in the societies or heavily into family research. Do you find it's more common for people to be more involved if they have an uncommon surname? Like, are there many Jones, Smith, Johnson types? I was completely not feeling work today and was messing around with familysearch.com and I think I would shoot myself if I had to research my surname beyond my grandfather. It's not quite "Jones" but it's almost there. Plus common first names, like John, were ever so popular for the guys. [/I]
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Try Benjamin Davenport who is the son of Benjamin Davenport who is the son of Benjamin Davenport. . . . .
Everyone will run into a name roadblock at some point in time. The more information you can find about your specific person the more you can narrow down the search. Even with limited information you can make up a log of where the person was located for various events to help narrow down the search.
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