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• Working With Surname Variations

  
  Destination: Austin Family — Authority: 535
  [This post was created as part of the 24th Edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy ] Despite enduring two years of German while working on my bachelors degree (can you tell I hated it?), I still have trouble with certain words specifically surnames.  When I am doing research, I will ...
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• Surname Saturday: PLUTA

  
  What's Past is Prologue — Authority: 459
  Surname - PLUTA Meaning/Origin – The name PLUTA ( hear it pronounced in Polish ) is derived from the Polish word pluć , meaning “to spit”.  Pluta means “spitter” or bad weather!  (Source: Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, Second Edition by William F. Hoffman) Countries of Origin - ...
  2 days ago

• Say It in Polish

  
  What's Past is Prologue — Authority: 459
  As a Polish-American interested in genealogy, I quickly learned that pronunciation is the key to everything.   How can you properly research a family if you can’t say the language correctly? I realized that there are American English pronunciations of Polish surnames and place names, and then there is the real ...
  4 days ago

• Twin vs. Twin – Travers or Fletcher?

  
  Nancy's Baby Names — Authority: 426
  Identical twin brothers Travers Mackel and Fletcher Mackel are reporters for the same local news station in New Orleans. Which name do you like better, Travers or Fletcher? Why?
  6 days ago

• Belated Saturday Night Fun - Oswalt/Oswald World Surname Distribution

  
  Jessica's Genejournal — Authority: 122
  For this Saturday Night Challenge, Randy has challenged other genealogy bloggers to determine the world wide distribution of their surnames , and although Im late in posting my response, I still wanted to write something before the weekend ends. For this challenge, I searched for two surnames: Oswalt and Oswald. ...
  1 week ago

• How Did You Get Your Name?

  
  planetjan — Authority: 109
  I could have been named Susan or Barbara, but the relatives in California nabbed those first.  So, I was named Janet.   When I got married my husband started calling me Jan.  I was fine with that.  Because I was such a happy child, my nickname was “Jan-ny Gay.”  But that was back before…oh, you know. When ...
  1 week ago

• The MacEntee Surname Distribution

  
  Destination: Austin Family — Authority: 535
  This weeks Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at Randy Seavers Genea-Musings asks participants to determine the worldwide and local distribution of their surname. Here is what Ive been able to find about the MacEntee surname using the World Names Profiler : The countries listed include Ireland with 5.49 persons ...
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• Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Surname Distributions!

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 590
  Hey, genealogy fans - its Saturday Night, and time for some Genealogy Fun! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music...), is: 1) Find out the geographical distribution of your surname - in the world, in your state or province, in your county or parish. I suggest that ...
  1 week ago

• Take a look at Dick Eastmans GenQueries site

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 590
  Dick Eastman has created a free genealogy queries and advertisement web site at www.GenQueries.com . See Dicks announcement here. Why did he do this? His post says: "For years, genealogy magazines and newsletters have published queries for their readers. These serve as public notices of I am looking for... ...
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• Baby Boy Named after Canadian Coast Guard Boat

  
  Nancy's Baby Names — Authority: 426
  Uwe Schiek and Nalia Barkman of rural Lasqueti Island had been planning to travel to Vancouver before the birth of their son. But that plan fell through when he decided to show up over a week early. The baby ended up being born several days ago aboard Canadian Coast Guard vessel Cape Edensaw . What was he ...
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• Halloween Census Whacking

  
  GeneaBlogie — Authority: 414
  With the crisis of my father’s recent illness and the minor drama of my own, I feel like I’ve been way out of touch the last two weeks.  It’s time get back into the flow of things.   I thought  little census whacking for Halloween would ease my way back into writing.  So I went hunting for Vampires, Zombies, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Halloween Names

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 590
  There are a number of families in the Rootsweb WorldConnect database at http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi that have surnames connected to Halloween. For instance: 1) The GHOST surname - there are 448 entries, including the descendants of Philip Ghost of Westmoreland County PA - see 6 generations here . It ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Sweeter “Sweet Sixteen”

  
  What's Past is Prologue — Authority: 459
  In August, Randy Seaver created an informative Saturday Night Genealogical Fun (SNGF) challenge to name our sixteen great-great grandparents , provide their pertinent dates and locations, and calculate one’s ethnic background.  My response to his challenge was a post called Sweet Sixteen: My Great-Great ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surname Saturday - A to Z

  
  Destination: Austin Family — Authority: 535
  I am going to copy an idea from Herstoryan in her Surname Saturday post where she outlines all her ancestry surnames (or least ones she plans to blog about) from A to Z. I like the idea of posting my surnames - not only does it help me focus on possible posting topics but I can make sure they get out there in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surname Saturday - SEAVER

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 590
  Its Surname Saturday time - a new blogging prompt theme that many geneabloggers will pursue each week. I have plenty of surnames! Hundreds, in fact! For this first post, Im going to choose SEAVER, my patrilineal line. Based on my research, and that of many others, Robert Seaver (1608-1683) was the first of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Surname Saturday: SLESINSKI – ŚLESIŃSKI

  
  What's Past is Prologue — Authority: 459
  Surname – SLESINSKI or ŚLESIŃSKI Meaning/Origin – The name SLESINSKI or ŚLESIŃSKI is derived from the place name Ślesin , a town in central Poland near Konin founded in 1231.  The suffix -ski is usually added to a person or place name to indicate a relationship such as “son of” or “from”.  ...
  3 weeks ago

• More shrinkage at Ralph Lauren

  
  The Frock Report — Authority: 132
  I know that we are in a recession but this is ridiculous! Now Ralph Lauren have disproportionately shrunk yet another of their Blue Label models. Valentina Zelatyeva has been given the Ralph Lauren treatment. Making the question posed on Salon :”Are models too thin or are you just too fat?” moot.xA Related ...
  3 weeks ago

• Miss, Mrs. or Ms.?

  
  Motherlode — Authority: 625
  There was a time when choosing Miss, Mrs. or Ms. was a declaration, and a very big deal. Now, Ms. has become so ubiquitous that its less a choice than a default.
  4 weeks ago

• Surname Saturday: ECHERER

  
  What's Past is Prologue — Authority: 459
  Surname – ECHERER Meaning/Origin – I have not found a definitive answer on the origin of the ECHERER name, but it may be related to ECKER or EGGER.  According to the Dictionary of German Names, Second Edition by Hans Bahlow, these names are found frequently near Munich and they mean “from the dwelling ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nigerian Customs Service Introduces Simplified Electronic Cargo Clearance Process

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Nigeria’s Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi says the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has introduced a new simplified electronic clearance process to attain the 24-hour cargo dwell time in Nigerian ports. Speaking at a one-day seminar on self assessment and up-front payment on Wednesday in Lagos, ...
  4 weeks ago

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