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To: Trump20162020

Any relationship to Obama’s Eric Holder?

First names often run in related families, with children getting first names that are also the first names of older relatives of their parents; their parents’ siblings, aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents, ect.

Well, maybe that was quite normal in my parents’ generation anyway. I know it was also quite normal in generations before my parents; having done some ancestry research and seen that it occurred quite often for many generations back. Find a family name, find ancestors and you can often find first names repeating in the family line somewhere.


21 posted on 04/02/2019 8:41:26 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli
First names often run in related families,
In Judaism children are oftentimes named for deceased relatives, sometimes using their first initial.
28 posted on 04/02/2019 10:52:13 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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