Family Tree
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babynamesLately, I've been going on Ancestry.com to research my family tree. I have found out a lot of new people on my father's side, but not so much on my mother's side. So, I thought I would share some of the more...unusual names I found. These are all from the mid 1800's to the early 1900's. All of them are on my father's side and almost all of them males. Well, there are two on my mother's side - her and her father. So, let's start with the women.
Merry - my mother, who it seems, was named after her mother's sister.
Alzada
Freelove
Christina - that's not so odd unless you pronounce it chris-TINE-uh
Now the men:
Purl - My mother's father, who had a twin Earl.
Marenus
Squire
Rensssealear
Harwood
Hammel
Everts
Newell
Novatus
Theron - this is not a blood relative. He was my aunt's husband.
Merry - my mother, who it seems, was named after her mother's sister.
Alzada
Freelove
Christina - that's not so odd unless you pronounce it chris-TINE-uh
Now the men:
Purl - My mother's father, who had a twin Earl.
Marenus
Squire
Rensssealear
Harwood
Hammel
Everts
Newell
Novatus
Theron - this is not a blood relative. He was my aunt's husband.
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Date: 2013-07-18 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-18 01:17 am (UTC)My mother's family is part Danish, part Norwegian, part French on her mother's side and part Welsh and part English on her father's side.
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Date: 2013-07-18 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:17 am (UTC)I have a question - Do you have a paid account with Ancestry? Right now I'm on a 30 day free trial, but it runs out on Saturday. It's kind of hard to figure out from the website about billing. Will they bill me monthly or for the whole year at once? I'd love to keep my account, but I can't afford to pay the whole amount at once. Thanks.
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Date: 2013-07-18 01:57 pm (UTC)OKAY. So weird? I have a trial as well but it's a 14 day trial! :( From what I read there is a 6month membership fee and a monthly membership fee.
I guess http://www.ancestry.com/cs/offers/freetrial?o_iid=48816&o_lid=48816&o_sch=Web+Property shift V means POST comment now. LOL. Anywho...I probably won't keep paying. :( Buying a house/pregnant. BUT I REALLY WANT TO! It's so cool! :)
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-18 05:46 pm (UTC)I think I was mistaken and had just a two week trial, too. I've really gotten back into the genealogy stuff now and I don't want to stop, either. I hope I can work things out with Ancestry.
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Date: 2013-07-19 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-07-20 12:18 am (UTC)According to their records, I've paid them $160+ and have a six-month membership. It's working again, but nothing has been taken out of my bank account by Pay Pal and I have the e-mails from Pay Pal saying they won't pay Ancestry.com. We ended up deciding to let it wait until Monday and see what happens with the payment. Until then, I'm going to use my account. :D
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:00 am (UTC)One of my great-greatmothers was mostly English in descent, and she and her sisters had mostly "classic" sounding English girl's names. Two of her younger brothers? Were named Rockwell and Royal (thankfully, the family called them "Rock" and "Roy"). Great-grandma's grandmother was Augusta
My late grandfather on that ^ side of the family had two sets of twin cousins that I remember: Laurence ("Laurie") and Clarence ("Clary") and Garth and Gary.
On the other side of the family tree, I'm Scottish. My great-grandfather was George Ervin (for some reason, he used his middle name exclusively. I had to pull up his and great-grandma's marriage papers to find out what his first initial actually stood for), and his father was James Eldridge. Great-Great-Great-Granddad's first name was Lorenzo.
My great-uncles--George Ervin's sons--are/were: James Eldridge (goes exclusively by Eldridge), Wilmot Rodger, and Delbert Dalton (went by Dalton).
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Date: 2013-07-18 03:23 am (UTC)My mother's name was Merry Ethel Grundy, When she got married, she legally became Merry Grundy Cranston. But somewhere along the line, she started using Merry Lou and the car registration and insurance were in her name with Lou as her middle name. She never did tell me where that came from.
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Date: 2013-07-18 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-18 05:49 pm (UTC)Sherman and Therman is pretty bad. I'm not fond of rhyming names for twins anyway and bad rhyming names are even worse.
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Date: 2013-07-18 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-18 04:08 pm (UTC)Speaking of Christina pronounced Chirst-TINE-a, My great grandmother was Sophia pronounced So-FIE-a.
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Date: 2013-07-19 06:56 pm (UTC)Luella
Redmond or Redman Lake (was written either way, apparently)
America (f)
Elgin Wayne
Orville
Meriel or Merrill (also spelled various ways on censuses)
Honora "Nora"
Weronica
Frederika "Rike"
Jackson
Hubby's found some interesting ones, too.
Alys (f)
Sussanna
Johan
Marija
Catharina
Alvah (m)
But the winner goes to my stepmother, who inherited the family Bible and discovered that she had a female ancestor named Hepzibeth! Apparently it's a variant of Hepzibah...
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