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 <br>'''The patronymic naming system lasted to the following time periods:'''
-==Denmark==
+== Denmark ==
+See [[Denmark Personal Names]].
-If a Dane moved from the country into the city, he could have taken a farm or village name as his surname to be known by in the city records. Otherwise, as early as the 1850's in most major Danish cities (1828 in Copenhagen), the use of the patronymics began to be discontinued. In the countryside, the change from patronymics to using the same surname began around 1867. The key to finding out when the change is in that area, is to watch for the pattern in the records. Note if the child is always being given the surname of the father or if it is still being mixed. Suffixes for a danish surname are -søn (masculine), and -datter (feminine).
 ==Finland==