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The meaning of a name

The Sears family name is derived, misspelled, translated, obscured, and Americanized into various forms. From ancestry.com, this blurb on the Sears name seems to simplify everything. Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below). …