Mario & Barbara Martinez wrote: > > Even more fun is when your family, for some reason, just chooses to flip > their middle names and first names and leaves Canada for NY! Then in > another line, my g-grandmother changed her name completely...took a whole > new name and a whole new state! (It was an obit in the Utica paper that > helped us make the connection in that particular case). > > An interesting note: In Alaska, the school district applications have the > child's legal name, and the name they are known by on the application. You > can give your family a whole new name with the link being school records to > the birth certificate. I don't remember if NY schools work the same > way...been a long time since I went to school there. But, who > knows...School records in Kansas helped me with my Utica family, so maybe > if there are school records, that may help (Teachers write the nick name > of the student and put them with the formal name.)] > > ---------- > > From: Randy Sahr <rsahr@mail.tds.net> > > To: kjp1939@tgn.net > > Cc: rsahr@mail.tds.net; Joan Bakeman <J-Bakeman@msn.com>; NY Gen BB > <GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Subject: Re: Nicknames > > Date: Monday, May 26, 1997 9:13 AM > > > > Kathryn, > > You got me. I have heard that it is and that it isn't. Sadie is the same > > kind of thing. That's what fascinates me so much about the challenges of > > doing genealogical research <G>. Like Kat, Kate, Katey, Katie, Kathy, > > Kathie, all being nicks for Kathryn? Or Peggy, Peg, for Margaret? > > > > I also understand that in the southern mountain states that it was very > > common to change a child's birthname if the relatives didn't like it, or > > had a better suggestion. But the different names were not necessarily > > recorded. Can get Very confusing! We are lucky that we can gain any true > > info at all! > > > > And then, when you add in the factor of our Native American, and/or Afro > > American ancestors 'passing' whenever possible to avoid persecution, and > > the family keeping the secret, confusion can really set in <G>. > > > > I'll Never give up! But then I Live for a challenge :) > > Randy > > > > Kathryn Parks wrote: > > > Isn't Sally short for Sarah? > >
After moving from Canada to NY and baptizing 5 children with the surname
GENDRON my gg-grandfather changed his name to MANELL and baptizied the
next 6 children MANELL. WHY?? Still trying to figure out where MANELL
came from.
Laurie