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My sister gave my niece my grandfather's name as a middle name -- his name was Garman. And my nephew was given my father's name as middle -- John.
But no one has ever used my 2nd great grandfathers name. Ananius Jeremiah. His siblings? Susan, Barbara and George.... All we can think of is it must have been a bad labor...
I have a male ancestor whose first name was Freedom, He was born right after the American Revolution. Pretty cool for 1778.
A lot of my ancestors on my Dad's side had biblical names: Nehemiah, Samuel, Daniel, Sarah, Jedediah, Abel, Deborah, etc.
Most of the ancestors on my Mom's father's side had very repetitive Irish Catholic names. I really got sick of trying to figure out all the Daniel Patricks, Michael Patricks and Mary Margarets.
I really like the old tradition of giving the child, male or female, the mother's maiden name as the middle name. That happened a lot in my family, but ended in the 20th century.
my brother followed the old italian being called by the middle name thing ...... for example, paul anthony would be tony ..... this is very popular in my family tree and i've come across it quite a bit
also, one of his kids has his middle name as the last name of the maternal grandmother
another has the first name from our family tree - about 6 generations back
for me on both side of my family james is a common middle name and I followed suit with my son .... my daughters middle name is also a family name on my side and my wifes side .... both first names are just names we like and we call them by their first name
I once figured out what my name would have been had Norwegian naming practices of the mid 19th century not changed (and had carried across the Atlantic). The surname was patronymic, and the given name was generally given for the names of the child's grandparents. For example, my first son would be named after my father, second son after my wife's father, third son after me (daughters generally got similar treatment). So, I would have likely been "Asle Aslesen", and my son would also be Asle Aslesen.
I would like to see the return of females being given female names, instead of male names or surnames that sound male.
Seems unfair to the girls. Plus, if things continue as they have, girls will be called George and Howard some day, and we'll have to resort to just numbering the boys.
I would like to see the return of females being given female names, instead of male names or surnames that sound male.
Seems unfair to the girls. Plus, if things continue as they have, girls will be called George and Howard some day, and we'll have to resort to just numbering the boys.
like George Forman did? he named all of his sons "George," & then numbered them!!!
We have a tradition that every male gets one (of about 10) old family first names. All of them Old Testament Biblical. Either as the first or middle name. It's kind of cool but very un-original. (Some of the older women have one of the names as well.)
If you holler out Levi! at a family bar-b-q, ten guys will look up. Needless to say, we're big on nick-names.
I would like to see the return of females being given female names, instead of male names or surnames that sound male.
Seems unfair to the girls. Plus, if things continue as they have, girls will be called George and Howard some day, and we'll have to resort to just numbering the boys.
Nah -- we'll just revert back to Beverly and Leslie being male names....
And my name is simple as get out -- and I am amazed when someone gets it right.... how difficult is Jean?
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