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I was looking for a distant relative on a site that provides many though not all deceased people, grouped by surname and given names. The ln I was looking for (no luck) was Thompson. In the course of my search, I found LANIE LOVIE ALFRED THOMPSON, born in the late 1940s. I've never met one in South Africa, but this poor man wasn't the only Alfred by a long shot. Which makes sense; British names were pretty standard among English-speaking South Africans until we finally got TV in the mid-1970s, when there was an American influence for the first time.