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Help[Opinions] Re: Unusual or Notable ancestor names in my genealogy
in reply to a message by Dianatiger
Do you have multiple records for all of these? Some of them (Barchle, Bernadrum, Chrischona, Ehristine, Gali, Gashum, Inconnu, Jerg, Pennum, etc.) look like the sorts of errors that turn up in genealogies because people have trouble reading the handwriting in old records, or because census takers and other officials centuries ago didn't know how to spell and were careless.
You have to be careful about interpreting old records -- even from the 20th century, sometimes. One of my aunts married a man whose father's first name was Gabriel. On my aunt & uncle's marriage certificate it says his father's name was Cable -- obviously the clerk who filled the form out misheard the name and no one ever bothered to correct it.
I also had a great-aunt whose first and middle names were Alexandria Tennant, and who was usually called Tennant or Tennie in the family. There are six different names for her in various U.S. census records, the weirdest one being "Toussaint". :)
You have to be careful about interpreting old records -- even from the 20th century, sometimes. One of my aunts married a man whose father's first name was Gabriel. On my aunt & uncle's marriage certificate it says his father's name was Cable -- obviously the clerk who filled the form out misheard the name and no one ever bothered to correct it.
I also had a great-aunt whose first and middle names were Alexandria Tennant, and who was usually called Tennant or Tennie in the family. There are six different names for her in various U.S. census records, the weirdest one being "Toussaint". :)
