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Originally Posted by chucksabr
On the Canadian namesets, I'm a little unclear as to why you bowdlerized English surnames from the French list, since French first name/English last name is fairly common in Quebec, as you can see in this example:
Généalogie du Québec et française d'Amérique: Famille Smith
This doesn't seem to square with the decision to maintain people who have English first names and French last names in the English list.
Am I missing, or misunderstanding, something here? |
I'm not familiar with lots of French-Canadians who have English last names and French first names, but I'm aware of a fair number of Anglo-Canadians with French last names and British first names. The sources I looked at didn't match first names with last names, so I had no way of knowing how many Smiths were named Allen and how many were named Alain. Unfortunately, that's the way it goes -- the limited nature of the sources meant that a lot of guesswork went into these namesets. Maybe when I revise the French-Canadian nameset, I'll stick in a few English last names.