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iridium (12/29/2015) [-] 
How does that app work though?
Most Icelandic names are based on the father's name, and there aren't a lot of Icelandic first names so you're bound to run into a bunch of Jon Nielssons and Niel Jonssons.
Most Icelandic names are based on the father's name, and there aren't a lot of Icelandic first names so you're bound to run into a bunch of Jon Nielssons and Niel Jonssons.
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anon (12/29/2015) [-]
Yea, so the thing is not explaining the Íslendinga bók 100%, it not made by some guy its just a record of all the Icelanders that have been, and are, and how then are related, its kept up to date by a government institute, so all in all there is an app that uses this to see who you are close to but its not the entirety of the database.
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iridium (12/29/2015) [-] Well I mean would you just type "Niel Jonsson" and get 100 results? How would you find them?
My question is more how does it differentiate the guy you might be dating from the guy across the street and the guy who shovels the snow in front of your yard, Iceland only has a fairly small list of approved names and most of those guys have last names that plenty of other guys have.
My question is more how does it differentiate the guy you might be dating from the guy across the street and the guy who shovels the snow in front of your yard, Iceland only has a fairly small list of approved names and most of those guys have last names that plenty of other guys have.
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solvikaaber (12/30/2015) [-] Well in all of my life that I've lived in Iceland I've almost never met two people with the same exact name. Most people which have the same first names I know have different middle names, father names or surnames (not that common). But if I would meet someone with the most common first name (and therefore also most common father name) "Jón Jónsson", I could probably see their information like ancestry, current age and more. Also FYI the people who made the app were kind of joking that it could be used to prevent you having sex with a relative of yours. Most Icelanders know their relatives of the same age up to 3 generations of people.
