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[Facts] Name Yost stand for and what origin
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Ann
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1/12/2005, 7:55 AM
I am trying to find out what Yost stands for. Yost and
Elizabeth
Decker's son
John
came to the USA around 1857. What does Yost stand for in Enlish?
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Andy ; —)
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1/12/2005, 9:18 AM
It is an Americanisation of the
German
name Jo(o)st, which again is from Jodocus (click on
Joyce
for more info)
Andy
;—)
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