Inhabitants of New Hampshire 1776, by Emily S. Wilson, is a list of adult male inhabitants living in New Hampshire in 1776. This records was originally published in Peter Force’s American Archives, in 1848. In response to a Continental Congress resolution that all those not willing to sign the Association to defend the cause of [...]
The following snippet is from a short article posted in the October 25, 2012 edition of Coventry Telegraph. Mary Scary, Fran Pire and Frank N Stein are among the peculiar names unearthed by a family history website. Ancestry.co.uk said a study of names on its site going back hundreds of years, ranging from school registers [...]
Andras Koltai of Budapest, Hungary recently developed Famble, an iPhone / iPod / iPad game app that plays with Jewish surnames, It is a classic word search type game, but the words you have to look for are Jewish surnames. The game can be accessed at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/famble/id543534434?l=hu&ls=1&mt=8 Check it out. It’s only 99 cents.
Check out the infographic below to discover the history and strongholds of 20 of the most popular Irish family names. Click on the image and go to the GoIreland.com website, where the resolution of the image is better.
The following teaser is from an article posted in the July 4, 2012 edition of theeagle.com: FREEPORT, Maine — He’s arguably Maine’s best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror writer Stephen King. To his customers, he was simply known as “L.L.” But as outdoors [...]
You think today’s baby names are funny? And that our ancestors didn’t use “funny” names? Think again! Doing research in Pulaski County, Indiana, and in some Virginia counties, I was browsing through some of those county records when these names jumped out at me: Jaariorigim SMITH m. 2 Jul 1810 to Mary DICKENSON in Virginia [...]
Inhabitants of New Hampshire 1776, by Emily S. Wilson, is a list of adult male inhabitants living in New Hampshire in 1776. This records was originally published in Peter Force’s American Archives, in 1848. In response to a Continental Congress resolution that all those not willing to sign the Association to defend the cause of [...]
A friend of a friend here in Spokane told me that her friend owns a shop where they buy old things. Recently she bought a trunk full of all sorts of information on a SCIAMANDA family. A scruffy fellow recently brought in a (stolen??) trunk full of letters and documents………documents in French?Italian? The two names [...]
The following excerpt is from a fascinating article by Alison Leigh Cowan, published in the July 22, 2011 edition of the New York Times. “I was in seventh or eighth grade, and we were asked to do a little genealogy,” recalled Andrew Van Dusen, now a 47-year-old real estate broker specializing in Brownstone Brooklyn. “My [...]
You’ll find a map made up of surnames found in the United States at the National Geographic Magazine blog. The size of the printed name is relative to the overall number of persons by that name living in a state. Every state is made up of the top 25 surnames found there. I not that [...]
The following is another interesting piece written by my good friend, Tom Fiske. I have a new reason to give thanks. Lately I have been researching for a new book I am writing with the help of a retired CIA field operator (although he says they can’t retire; they are either active or inactive). Since [...]
The following teaser is from an interesting article by Michael Hoffman about Japanese names, found in the October 11, 2009 edition of the Japan Times. “How do you do, my name is Saito Ichiro Sama-no-kami Minamoto-no-Ason Tadayoshi.” We can be grateful to the reformers of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) for cutting Japanese names down to [...]
The following news release was written by dynastree.com staff. See my comments and direct links to the Foreign language sites at the end of the news release. Hamburg, August 11, 2009 – The family network dynastree.com features maps for showing the distribution of one’s surname for eight countries at the moment. Such maps are not [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau maintains a website where you can check the frequency of your Surname. It’s based on data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Censuses, so don’t expect any European data here. In checking the MEITZLER surname, I found that it’s the 42,872nd most common name in the country. It has a frequency [...]
There’s a column called “Meet the Marleys” in the April 15, 2009 edition of ThisisGuernsey.com. Following is a teaser: THE Marley family roots can also be traced back to the Westcountry – in this case to the hamlet of Bampton, near Tiverton in north Devon. John Marley was born there in 1748 and on 20 [...]
