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porter03
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Posted - 21/07/2002 :  01:50:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I'm new to this site and still trying to figure out how to navigate through it, but I have some questions that I can't seem to get the answers to anywhere. I think that Sovde is the name of a town, in both Norway and Sweden. True? Most of the information I find is about that place, but I have no way of finding out more because it's in a language I can't read. I don't know if my last name was respelled in the U.S. or if that is the original spelling. Is there some way that I can just search passenger lists without the correct spelling of first names? I've reached a lot of dead ends and I'm just not sure where to go from here and I saw this website and it looked like the most information I could find. Any extra assistance would be greatly appreciated.
thanx. jacqui

Borge
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Norway
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Posted - 21/07/2002 :  12:51:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I don't knoe about Sovde, but "Søvde" is the name of a farm in Lyster, which during the years were divided in several parts - see the Digitalarkivet 1865 census of Søvde farms. If you want to know more about names, you could also read the article "Those Norwegian names, tips for the "online" researcher"

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