because Lionel Richie is the man.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I was watching the always-awesome 'Who Do You Think You Are' this week, and it was Lionel Richie's story time. Quite the stand-out name, his great-grandmother's (I believe, I may be getting it confused with his grandmother) name was Volenderver.

Google is not helping with anything; almost all the results are about Lionel Richie. Has anybody ever heard this anywhere else? What do you think? Will this classic name make a comeback?

When they kept saying it, I couldn't understand it. And then they showed it on the family tree and I was like, whoa.