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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 5, 2009 10:44:39 GMT -5
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Post by sloanrodgers on Apr 6, 2009 18:15:15 GMT -5
I've seen those general biographies before. The speculation that Mike Fink was French Canadian is kind of strange. Part of my father's side of the family were Canucks, so I'm a bit familiar with this segment of North American society. I could not find any French Canadian Finks (Phincks or Phinks) in 18th Century Montreal or Wheeling, Virginia. I even looked in the Dictionary of French Canadian Biographies and found no reference to the Fink family. It appears that the authors are trying to tie Fink to the French voyageur tradition of the Mississippi River. Phinck looks German to me, but I'm not a surname etymologist.
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