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German/East European name variants
I found an excellent resource:https://www.sggee.org/research/AlternateChristianNames.pdfPublished by The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe. It contains many east-european variants of german names that are not currently in the database.
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I have skimmed through the names and while they are compiled with good intentions the list contains some easy to note errors mostly going overboard in equating names (e.g. Alaric and Ulrich). It cannot be imported here without cross-checking each name form both for existence and for equivalence.--elbowin
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I'm not commenting on the names and the variants themselves because I didn't get a chance to take a good look at the document yet, but I'd like to point out that the names mentioned in the file were used in Poland and Volhynia.
They would have used different forms in other parts of Eastern Europe.
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