Message: "Re: The origin of scandinavian surnames BERGO or BERGOO"

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Re: The origin of scandinavian surnames BERGO or BERGOO

by Andy ;—) (guest)

1/16/2005, 7:38 AM

in reply to a message by F. Jameson

Check this:

http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=Bergo&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

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- Jim Young (guest)

1/16/2005, 4:48 PM

"Mountain-island" is the literal meaning of this name. It is a surname of the type I call "synthetic." Hanks and Hodges, in their Dictionary of Surnames call them "ornamental names." An explanation can be found below in the discussion of the name Lofgren.

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