"EFFY"...could be short for?.....

Looking for Scottish Ancestors

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rye470
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Location: Originally Linwood now Rye, NY.

Post by rye470 » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:26 am

The possibilities are endless.

You think you know the common abbreviations and then someone throws in something you had never thought of before and you have to rethink.

Christine.
Fyfe,Binnie,Stewart,McEwan -Fife, Perthshire, Clackmannanshire.
McFarlane,Reid - Dunbartonshire.
Alexander,Dawson,Hamill,Kennedy,McCulloch - Donegal,Down, Armagh to Renfrewshire,Lanarkshire.

DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:25 am

rye470 wrote:The possibilities are endless.

You think you know the common abbreviations and then someone throws in something you had never thought of before and you have to rethink.

Christine.
You've got "the golden rule" in one :!:

And that's on the basis of over 20 years' experience :!:

I long ago gave up being surprised, or thinking that I'd seen it all ..............

David