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From: lane@8565.DEC (Mickey Lane x3067)
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Subject: middle names
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 15:50:33 EST
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  Does anyone know when the practice of giving people middle names
started? Old records (1700s) rarely show them. Is it that people did
not record middle names or is it that they did not have them?

                       Mickey Lane