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11-01-2005, 09:23 AM
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Re: Semi Bragging and a $200 Reward
Does this mean that feeling the desire to write a book (and actually doing it) has a genetical background or is it more like "Hmmm, cousin David made lots of cash by writing books, I'll try that also!".
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#2
11-01-2005, 11:42 AM
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Re: Semi Bragging and a $200 Reward
If this includes only adult family members, mine comes awfully close. Does it have to be a published book or can it be any topic? I used to write for NPR and my mother is a (soon to be) published author. There are less than 20 adults with my last name in the world.
My case is helped due to the lack of males on my father's side of the family. Granted, I probably fall into the "special rare case" category. Its a cool thing you have nonetheless.
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#3
11-01-2005, 12:25 PM
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Attempt #2
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(To make it easy, I'd suggest using white page searches and multiplying by 2.5 unless they also inlude enumerating unlisted numbers. If so multiply by 1.5. [/ QUOTE ] Last name: Lippmann whitepages: 219 listings matching "lippmann, United States" (17 unpublished listings) (219 listed + 17 non-listed)*1.5 = 354 Amazon search by Author name = Lippmann: All 256 results for Lippmann Manually checking these for duplicates, "contributers", editors, and "forwards" leaves these 42 names: Annette Lippmann Arthur L Lippmann Bernard Lippmann Charles Rosenfall Lippmann Christa Lippmann David Zangwill Lippmann Dieter Lippmann E. O Lippmann Ed Lippmann Edmund Oskar von Lippmann Ellen Lippmann Eric Lippmann Ernesto Lippmann F. Lippmann Friedrich Lippmann G. James Lippmann Glenda K Lippmann H. Lippmann Heinz Lippmann Horst Lippmann Ingeborg Lippmann Ingo Lippmann Irwin Lippmann John Lippmann Julie Mathilde Lippmann Lionel W Lippmann Lloyd M Lippmann Lorna Lippmann Margrit Lippmann Marlies Lippmann Me Lippmann Mila Lippmann-Pawlowski Morton Lippmann Paul Lippmann Richard P. Lippmann Robert Lippmann Seymour A Lippmann Steven Lippmann Theodorus Wilhelmus Maria Lippmann Walter Lippmann Wilfried G. Lippmann Wolfgang Lippmann [ QUOTE ] Thus ten to fifteen percent of all adult Sklanskys are book authors .... I contend that there is NO OTHER FAMILY NAME that can boast this percentage of book authors [/ QUOTE ] 42 / 354 = 11.86% Do I win anything ?
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#4
11-01-2005, 12:46 PM
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Re: Attempt #2
Are all the authors US Lippmanns?
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#6
11-01-2005, 01:22 PM
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Re: Semi Bragging and a $200 Reward
Damn 50 name requirement. 7 Lidums in the country (I know one of them) and 1 author.
Edit 48 Lipshitz and 7 or 8 authors, close enough to 50? Edit 2 - the 48 was from yahoo people search, so there are probably a few unlisted.
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#8
11-01-2005, 01:40 PM
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Re: Semi Bragging and a $200 Reward
There are 1304 axelrods and 927 books with at least a contributing axelrod author, looks like they may be close, and probably the winner for > 1000 members. I don't have the time to go through 900+ books and get a unique count.
to continue the axelrod theme: Fudenberg 2 out of 16 Tirole 1 out of 0 (  )Levine - way too many levines Nash - way too many Nashes Von Neumann and Morgenstern are dead, so I guess I will leave them out.
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#9
11-01-2005, 03:01 PM
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Re: Semi Bragging and a $200 Reward
Hi David:
I think my name might out produce yours. Of course you have to keep in mind that not everyone with my name had it spelt the same way due to the inability of people to speak English when they passed through Ellis Island. Thus Malmud and Malamud are the same name as Malmuth, and the best known writer with our name was Bernard Malamud (who I've been told was a distant cousin). No wonder you work for me. Best wishes, Mason
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#10
11-01-2005, 11:32 PM
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Re: Semi Bragging and a $200 Reward
I have determined that the whitepages (.com) isn't the most
reliable way to be going about this. Also I now have read that it only displayed the FIRST 299 of the total found ( which it didn't say) and it also finds 27 sklansky's. okay now ancestry.com gave me a much higher number. This is the number of Nordquist's  compared to the staggeringly low ( by comparison ) Sklansky's  * note that these are census results from 1920 P.S. ther were 7 more Sklansky's than Malmuths back in those days.  just something new and interesting in the post, since alot of you have given up.
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