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Whether a name is KLASS or KLOSS may depend on the
scribe in both Russian and English, so always investigate both
spellings if your surname contains an a or an o. Russian metrical
records are written in script; they are not printed. The difference
between the script a and the script o should depend on where the
continuation line exits the circle. But scribes did not make these
careful distinctions. In a year's Tsarist-era metrical records
written by the same scribe, unless you already know the word,
you will be unable to distinguish the o from the a in 25% of the cases.
This is particularly true at the end of the word. So if looking for
SHAPIRO, be sure to check SHAPIRA.
Bert
Herbert Lazerow
San Diego CA
lazer@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
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