Monday, May 27, 2013

a rose by any other name...

I have been having so much fun over the past few months on ancestry...some lines go back over 300 years. I'm so impressed at the digging many of my distant relatives have done. I wanted to document my favorite women's names from long ago:

From my paternal line:

Deliverance (1695-1762) Massachusetts
Elizabeth (1636-1691) Massachusetts
Sigurbjorg  (N.D.) Iceland
Briet (N.D.) Iceland

From my maternal line:
Elizabeth (1772-184) Virginia/Kentucky
Elizabeth (1783-1835) Illinois
Elizabeth (1861-1943) England/Los Angeles
Maren (1793-1848) Denmark
Engliche (1683-1746) Denmark

What's in a name?

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