• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    If it’s a common enough name combo, always double check.

    My dead name was a very common one. The amount of random news articles that would pop up. I don’t think I ever found a murderer, but a number of other crimes did pop up.

    • nagaram@startrek.website
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      2 days ago

      My family name is pretty uncommon outside of mexico and when you googled my dads name the top result used to he an obituary of another man with the same name, birthday, same KIDS name, same time served in the army, and same job as a truck driver.

      Only difference is he was from southern California.

      Also turns out we were kin as my great grand father was addicted to traveling the country and making babies.

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      3 days ago

      I have an uncommon birth name. My only known name doppelganger has a high prestige job and has started over taking me in search results. I’m happy to finally be a bit less Google-able.