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Re: searching for the Mihkelson family
Posted by: Arvo Tars	Date: January 21, 2001 at 14:35:01
In Reply to: searching for the Mihkelson family by Miranda Mihkelson	of 1632

Hi Miranda,
Don't want to complicate life, but
1. MIHKELSON is a patronymic and as such there are many different families, all over Estonia with the name that are NOT related. Last names were not used among rural peasants until ca.1830.
2. In the 1920's and 1930's many Estonians, Estonianized their names,
eg, MIHKELSON > MIHKELSOO
[or something totally unrelated like the author Friedebert TUGLAS, was a MIHKELSON until 1923]. Sometimes different names were chosen by brothers or cousins.

Now for a few things to help. Check out
http://www.aai.ee/~urmas/urm/vast.html
also you might want to look at
http://www.magma.ca/~peets/geneologyMainPage.htm
for two MIHKELSON's from Viljandi.
Good Luck,
Arvo

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