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Help[Opinions] Re: Persis
in reply to a message by Wordsmith
I actually have met a woman named Persis who would be about 90 now if she was still living. Personally I like it.
Persis was regularly used in colonial New England. When I was researching the history of the use of the name Pearl in the USA, I found several claimed instances of women named Pearl in the index to the U.S. census on Ancestry.com, but when I checked the original records they were all misreadings of other names, with Persis being by far the most common name the indexers mistakenly read as "Pearl."
Persis was regularly used in colonial New England. When I was researching the history of the use of the name Pearl in the USA, I found several claimed instances of women named Pearl in the index to the U.S. census on Ancestry.com, but when I checked the original records they were all misreadings of other names, with Persis being by far the most common name the indexers mistakenly read as "Pearl."
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