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Electa- Electra missing the R? Or ambitious parents with presidency wishes for DD?

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No, this is probably someone who has resurrected a name from their family tree. Electa was fairly common as a given name among the descendants of the Puritans in New England and other northern states in the USA during the 18th and early 19th century. It didn't refer to electoral politics, but to the Calvinist concept of "election" in the spiritual sense.

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Here are a few examples of 19th century Electas from genealogy sites on the Web:

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http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Genealogy/Needham/d0003/I428.html

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http://cs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr17/rr17_100.html

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http://www.familytreecircles.com/journal_5896.html

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http://www.bluewolverine.com/genealogy/genealogy.php?op=indiv&id=I18

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http://www.gentree.com/cgi-bin/igmget/n=Hurlburt?ID3872

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P.S. And here is Wikipedia's explanation of the Calvinist concept:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_election

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This message was edited 7/21/2006, 2:13 PM