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Subject: Re: Looks German
Author: Jim Young   (guest, 87.102.7.166)
Date: March 4, 2007 at 2:06:07 AM
Reply to: Looks German by museumdoll
I agree. It must denote someone from a place called Schenkenfeld. There is a place of that name near Wurzburg in Central Germany (Franconia?), there may be others. Feld means field, Schenken means ...?

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