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Re: What's in a name? Genealogy fun. - pdq - 02-28-2018
jdc wrote:
[quote=Fred_Also]
Condoms weren't invented until 1855. Birth control pills a long time after that. Not much way to be safe back in the olden days.
Fred
Pull out. Its not hard.
Paging Newt2K! Suggestive comment needed on aisle 3...
Edit: Wait- I know! I know! That's what she said.
Re: What's in a name? Genealogy fun. - Paul F. - 02-28-2018
Know what they call people who use the "pull out" method for birth control?
Parents.
Re: What's in a name? Genealogy fun. - jdc - 03-01-2018
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
.... My current family name is spelled the same back to England from the time it was supposedly approximated from a French immigrant/invader. Same with various roots of the family tree, they were always easier to trace when the ancestor's name came from a family/city where people could read and write.
Who knew "muffman" was so common
Paul F. wrote:
Know what they call people who use the "pull out" method for birth control?
Parents.
Then they arent doing it right. =)
Re: What's in a name? Genealogy fun. - JoeH - 03-01-2018
jdc wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
.... My current family name is spelled the same back to England from the time it was supposedly approximated from a French immigrant/invader. Same with various roots of the family tree, they were always easier to trace when the ancestor's name came from a family/city where people could read and write.
Who knew "muffman" was so common
Paul F. wrote:
Know what they call people who use the "pull out" method for birth control?
Parents.
Then they arent doing it right. =)
It only works right if you never put it in first! Last stats I saw related to the "pull out" method put it at about a 30-40% failure rate.
Re: What's in a name? Genealogy fun. - mrbigstuff - 03-01-2018
No mistakes in my name, unique enough that I'm fairly certain that I'm related in some way to everyone who has it.
Re: What's in a name? Genealogy fun. - max - 03-01-2018
archipirata wrote:Lack of literacy is not the culprit in this case, it is the politics and geography.
But it certainly didn't used to be the case. I guess a good bit of it comes from low or non-existent literacy but even so the variety is amazing.
Here are a few examples, and these are all from official government documents including census, birth and death records, immigration records, etc.
My grandmother's maiden name was Radosy as well as I can determine but I find it also spelled Radoczy, Radosh, Radish, Rados, Radasy and Radoz.
I am presuming the name itself is of Hungarian origin, the various spellings are a direct reflections of difference in spelling of the same name dependent on which language of the Austrian Hungarian empire was used.
Besides original Hungarian I see Polish, Slovak, Czech and maybe Albanian, and Polish again...