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From: dkaulf@hpqt0147.sqf.hp.com (Dick Kaulfuss)
Subject: Re: Looking for lists of surnames
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Radovan Pletka (pletka@czechservice.dgsys.com) wrote:
: In article <ELLE.95Jul9220143@borg.ee.msstate.edu> elle@borg.ee.msstate.edu (Mary Weber) writes:

: >I hope someone here can help me or maybe point me to a better group.

: >I am working on a speech recognition project and I am looking for some good
: >resources 
: >to find about 20,000 surnames.  It doesn't matter if it is on line or a book. 

: >Thank you,
: >Mary Weber

: Why don't you buy a phone book on CD rom, you can get cca 80 million of names 
: for very little price (-:

   Or try some of the soc.genealogy.* newsgroups.  They're chock-full of
   names.

   Dick

