Feb 17 2013
I recently worked on a case that looked very hard to crack till a fellow genealogist pointed out he had seen the name written with 1 extra T in the name. with that information, I was able to find the whole family within 10 minutes. The message behind this, a name is not always what(…)
Jan 21 2013
In my last article I wrote about the importance of flushing out the lives of your ancestors – learning about what they did every day, what their environment was like – to paint a clearer picture of who they really were. Sometimes, though, this can be a dangerous undertaking. Every once in a while something(…)
Dec 2 2012
Now there’s a word you don’t see every day. The Online Dictionary of Language Terminology (ODLT) says: anthroponomastics Definition – The branch of onomastics that studies anthroponyms, i.e, the personal names of human beings. Etymology – The word derives from the Greek anthropos, human being + Greek onomastikos, of or belonging to naming (from onoma,(…)
Nov 8 2012
I had never thought about tracing my family tree. In fact, I had never thought of such a thing at all, until one day while visiting my auntie. I used to visit her once a month, as she was getting on in age. On one visit, I don’t know how we got on to the(…)
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