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30g2000yqi.googlegroups.com, says...

On Mar 31, 7:37*am, Peter Prick wrote:

But family matters are boring to strangers, aren't they? *So I'll stop
now. *

Oh, not at all. Here's a listing of most of my ancesterial names:

Schnautz, Weidner, McKinney, Sandschaefferr, Hahn, Gladstone,
Wilkinson, Smythe, Price, Cordell, Pruitt, Pearson, Kruegmann,
Knoppehler, Dhonau, Marmaduke (Not necessarily in that order.)

My cousin has my family (Schnautz) traced back to the Black forrest
region of Germany to about 1620. And my sister has my mothers side
traced to the British Isles to the mid 1700's

Many fine names there, Tim.
You are most fortunate to not have any with the connotations mine carry.
But one can say, "What's in a name?" or "A rose is a rose by any other
name" And so on. But this is neither the time or place.
Instead, let's just say "It's a beautiful day to go boating!"