Comments on: Names: How do you say that?

By: Jim Sanders

Jim Sanders — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:31:40 +0000

In Genealogy there are a lot of spelling mistakes, nicknames and spelling abreviations. When trying to find your ancestor you need to be aware of these. You may also need to know how to find them in an index when this occurs. Check out the blog about names and genealogy. It offers a number of suggestions on how to perform some searches when this happens. Regards, Jim

By: Adriana Urtusuastegui

Adriana Urtusuastegui — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:40:02 +0000

My last name is Urtusuastegui and im from Arizona. I spell it with a s.Theres people here that get very confused becuase they cant say it or spell it.

By: Dlorak Cathern Anderson

Dlorak Cathern Anderson — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:02:22 +0000

I first name is Dlorah. It’s Harold spelled backwards. Maybe not unusual today but in the 50’s girls went by Debbie, Brenda and Sue. My middle name is Cathern and it is always misspelled, too . I go by Kay now. There is actually another Dlorah out there because I couldn’t use it as my e-mail, it was already taken.

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Names: How do you say that? - MyHeritage.com - English blog — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:01:53 +0000

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By: Howland Davis

Howland Davis — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:37:42 +0000

Schelly:
Two comments if I may.
First my name is one where the dirst name is commonly found as a last neme. People flip them all the time especially hotel reservations (No we don’t have a reservation for Davis!).
Second, my father went to a boarding school where there was an English exchange student, Richard. But the first exchange student at the school had been a Gus so each one was Gus. But Uncle Gus had never told his parents in England. In 1961 we visited Uncle Gus and his parents and we asked him a question. His parents looked at him wondering who Gus was and he had to explain.