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From: Bev Anderson <>
Subject: Re: [DK] patronymic Jessen
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <014101c66fb1$0ace13d0$6401a8c0@HP>


Could it be Jensen instead? Is the handwriting clearly Jessen?

As someone who as been staring at Gothic penmanship all last night and today trying to transcribe it correctly, I realize how easy it might be to err with transcribing Gothic penmanship.... (The writers of the data I was transcribing used that big fancy s that looks like a cursive f for most of the sen parts of patronyms, and each time there was a double s they made one of the letters in the big fancy s that looks like cursive f.)

Jensen is a name with which I'm familiar where I was born and raised, and I've not seen Jessen before. Just a thought it might be Jensen, maybe.

Bev

Diana Gale Matthiesen <> wrote:
I've come across a patronymic "Jessen." Can someone tell me please what given
name this is derived from? Jesse?

Diana

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