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Subject: Re: danish surnames: Poulsen, Praest, Laudrup
Author: Sean Foglai   (guest, 24.60.10.116)
Date: September 18, 2004 at 8:23:42 PM
Reply to: Re: danish surnames: Poulsen, Praest, Laudrup by Menke
From my Norwegian dictionary ...sort of an educated guess, but 'laud' can mean first or primary and the 'rup' or 'drup' looks like it could be a form of 'thorpe' which is a farm ...

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