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May 3, 2005

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Last Names Clearly Derived From Ancestral Professions

by Sam Means

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Smith
Tanner
Garbagemann
Baker
Secretaryvich
Hooper
Miller
Barber
Editorson
Dentisté
Mason
Taylor
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