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Do you mind sharing what the free site is? I, too, feel that ancestry is overpriced.
Sure.
Wikitree. You have to be specific about your information, so you don't run into all the garbage on ancestry dot com does too. It isn't a lot more work, but less false info as far as I can tell. I have never checked here to see what anyone thinks about it.
Anyone else use this site?
Maybe strange is the wrong word. Today, those are stereotypical "white" names. They don't sound like a black couple and much less slaves. She was listed as "Becky" in some records, which is a joke today.
Same goes for Carry and Matilda.
Squire is not a name that I have ever heard before.
And "Cruz" is an odd, non-English sounding surname. Where would she have gotten such a surname?
My grandfather's name was Squire. There are actually quite a few in a couple of my family lines and, I think, are mostly associated with my Riley family.
America, Arizona, Zilda, Nannie and probably more but can't think of them right now.
"Squire" was the name of Daniel Boone's brother and father. I was looking at some names in the extended family a while back and saw the name 'Squire'. My family is said to have gone into Kentucky with Daniel Boone and apparently my ggggg grandparents knew him and he surveyed some land for them. They were the first settlers in what is now known as Booneville, Kentucky. I'm not descended from the Boone's, but 'Boone' and 'Daniel Boone' show up quite frequently.
That's funny, I only got into my Scottish line this past year, after breaking though one of my brick walls, and I was shocked at how in the census records in Scotland, almost every other female was named Euphemia! Then I was looking at marriages records for a male ancestor, trying to figure out what his wife's name was, and there were toms of men with his name (John Stewart) and about a third of them had wives named Euphemia. You had the usual "Mary" and "Elizabeth" but Euphemia was right up there in the top 3. How the heck did that become a "thing"?
Unusual name but it comes from Greek mythology. "Eppie" or "Effie" are nicknames.
I just found this website that tells the derivation of the names, when they were popular, and more. Euphemia had a run of popularity from abt 1880-1890. And that was it!
That's funny, I only got into my Scottish line this past year, after breaking though one of my brick walls, and I was shocked at how in the census records in Scotland, almost every other female was named Euphemia! Then I was looking at marriages records for a male ancestor, trying to figure out what his wife's name was, and there were toms of men with his name (John Stewart) and about a third of them had wives named Euphemia. You had the usual "Mary" and "Elizabeth" but Euphemia was right up there in the top 3. How the heck did that become a "thing"?
Really?
That's interesting, TracySam. Thanks for telling me that; I'm going to ask my mom, who grew up in Scotland. Maybe she'll know why Euphemia was so common.
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