Recording the REAL names of long losts in FH programmes.

[JayPee]

JayPee

We're not talking about your generation.
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Russell

Russell, I didn't see any mention from Sandy of "2 generations further back" with the reference to a possible nickname. If I misread this item, please forgive me.

I was merely suggesting caution.

- JayPee

[derekfrom france]

just adding a different twist i once knew someone called
RICHARD KAY **************
but everyone called him DANNY after the singer a nick name given in primary school everyone in later life thought that was his real name but when his old mother visited you had to call him richard
cheers derek

[tishgibbons]

Yup, all sounds familiar (don't mean that as a pun!) The name on my birth certificate is Ann Patricia but I've always been called Patricia or Tish after my grandmother. My mother wanted both names but was afraid that if she called me Patricia Ann that I would be called 'Paddy Ann' - one aunt always called me that anyway!

In addition Charles Mitchell was a standard family name through many generations in the family both in Scotland(which we didn't know about) and in Ireland. However my grand uncle Charles Gerard had his name changed to Gerard because every time they called him Charles his grandmother would start to cry because it reminded her of her son Charles who had died far from home in boarding school aged 16. My grandfather was christened Thomas Dermot but was always known as Dermot but I haven't found an explanation for that yet.

Just a thought - how will my descendants find me? I was born in England the only member of the family to have done so during my parents' brief fling with emigration, was married in Ireland, divorced in Scotland and remarried in the Channel Islands and I've never used either of my married names - and hardly anybody knows my name is Ann!!!! There could be a lot of money wasted on IrelandsPeople - just supposing it's ever set up!

Tish

[LesleyB]

Hi Tish

Just a thought - how will my descendants find me?

Maybe make sure you print out & leave plenty copies of your family research with any relatives!! And maybe one or two copies with relevant libraries - just incase someone comes looking for you in the future - leave a good paper trail

Best wishes
Lesley

[emanday]

How about this?

One of my relatives was registered with the actual preferred christian name as his middle name because his parents realised that if it had been registered correctly his initials would have been GAS.

[tishgibbons]

How about this?

My son's initials for his given names are APE - must have had foresight!!!!!

Tish