• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    One of my grandmothers’ surname was the name of a city in a country that no one in that family came from as far back as we can trace.

    All we can think is that, over the centuries of European conquest, that country conquered the country they lived in and gave my ancestor that surname.