A search of the yearbooks on Ancestry.com located a reference to an individual named “Newport Ufkes” in a University of Iowa yearbook in 1950. The name Ufkes is highly unusual and I was 99% certain the reference to my uncle who attended the University of Iowa Law School.
Turns out the men in a picture were listed by last name only. My uncle stood next a man with the last name of Newport. Seeing “Ufkes, Newport” the automatic indexing assumed it was a person whose name was Newport Ufkes.
Another reason to not always include first names in searches.
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