[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Need some help with surnames starting with O

Dave Obee daveobee at shaw.ca
Sat May 6 21:16:39 PDT 2006


Re:

> I am aware that a leading O in the British Empire means "of the
> family of" (for instance, O'Sullivan versus Sullivan).

Seems like a good time to note the need for caution when dealing with
surnames, and generalizations about them... the theory about the leading O
might work sometimes, but it doesn't work other times.

Dave Obee




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