Is there any truth that many names were self selected based on one’s occupation (e.g Vinter for Vintner?)
Stephen Winters
> On Jan 11, 2018, at 3:24 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, indeed, most interesting. Thank you, dear Jerome, for sharing this article with all of us. Me too, I was reproducing this fake story over the years and I'm happy that Alexander Beider dispelled this myth.
>
> By the way, Alexander Beider is a first-class expert, and together with Stephen P. Morse, he developed the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm, which is widely used by genealogists. Our Radautz BMD Index Databases
>
> Marriages:
> http://www.reisch-family.net/SevenSealsLukePHP/SevenSealsMarriages.html
>
> Deaths:
> http://www.reisch-family.net/SevenSealsRadautzDeathIndex/SearchForm.html
>
> so thoroughly created and implemented by Bruce, were developed using the One-Step Search Tool Generator on the Stephen P. Morse website [https://stevemorse.org/].
>
> Edgar Hauster
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