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From: Mickey Lane x3067
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1985 20:50

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  Does anyone know when the practice of giving people middle names
started? Old records (1700s) rarely show them. Is it that people did
not record middle names or is it that they did not have them?

                       Mickey Lane

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