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I just found out over dinner today that my dad’s great-grandfather was a town “Dato” (chieftain) and a Muslim man with 3 wives and 26 offspring. During his grandmother’s time everyone was converted to christianity, and I’m not sure if everyone was christened with the same family name. I very likely have relatives scattered all over the southern Islamic-dominant southern Philippine region, which probably means over in neighbouring Sabah and Sarawak too.