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The stories behind our names

Word of Mouth

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The Mystery of Lost Relatives

I was reminded of in my family you know chasing up lost people and sometimes it's very difficult to find them when you go through the documents. Liz didn't really know where what was contained in that Hussein surname. Her father never spoke about his Indian background because once her father who was first of all Arif but became John once he came over to England. So this business of changing names down through the generations I'm sure there's many listeners who've done family trees with English people at one minute called William and next minute bill, Eliza or Betsy.

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