What's in a name? Genealogy fun.

[pdq]

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.

[Paul F.]

Know what they call people who use the "pull out" method for birth control?

Parents.

[jdc]

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. =)

[JoeH]

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.

[mrbigstuff]

No mistakes in my name, unique enough that I'm fairly certain that I'm related in some way to everyone who has it.

[max]

archipirata wrote:
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.

Lack of literacy is not the culprit in this case, it is the politics and geography.
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...