06-18-2004, 07:51 AM
> Are you sure it's written 'aufria', not 'austria'? That would make some sense, as your family came from Germany.<br>
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I'd take bets that it's "Austria" as well. If it's in an "old" script, the internal "s" would have been written more like a modern "f", hence the confusion. This was only done with the "s" in the middle of a word but not at the beginning or end of it.<br>
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I'd take bets that it's "Austria" as well. If it's in an "old" script, the internal "s" would have been written more like a modern "f", hence the confusion. This was only done with the "s" in the middle of a word but not at the beginning or end of it.<br>
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Deb <p></p><i></i>
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Sulpicia Lepdinia
Legio XX
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Sulpicia Lepdinia
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