Indians or pioneers? Never hear of a true Indian named Mississippi? ;) I would like to hear about these names. Once we ran a thread about surname and I started a web page, then, it got lost. The web page is still there. I will post it when I find it. lol. Its not on this laptop. Ahh, it was in google http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/cheronames2.html also was this http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.matney/56.85.100/mb.ashx Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alli :)" <iamcheroke@gmail.com> To: "'Dan M'" <mygen2@d-matney.com>; <cherokeegene@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 10:03 PM Subject: RE: [CherokeeGene] Lore, Pride and Documentation > They also named their kids for some areas too >

But some names are spelled close to the way they sounded as well as being brought over..... But is there any place overseas (back then) named Mississippi? Finding the origination of names is always cool -----Original Message----- From: cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dan M via Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2014 10:28 AM To: cherokeegene@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Lore, Pride and Documentation Indians or pioneers? Never hear of a true Indian named Mississippi? ;) I would like to hear about these names. Once we ran a thread about surname and I started a web page, then, it got lost. The web page is still there. I will post it when I find it. lol. Its not on this laptop. Ahh, it was in google http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/cheronames2.html also was this http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.matney/56.85.100/mb.ashx Dan

No. Because it is an Indian word for " Father of Waters" Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alli :)" <iamcheroke@gmail.com> To: "'Dan M'" <mygen2@d-matney.com>; <cherokeegene@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 10:09 AM Subject: RE: [CherokeeGene] Lore, Pride and Documentation > But some names are spelled close to the way they sounded as well as being > brought over..... > > But is there any place overseas (back then) named Mississippi? > > Finding the origination of names is always cool > > -----Original Message----- > From: cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dan M via > Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2014 10:28 AM > To: cherokeegene@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Lore, Pride and Documentation > > Indians or pioneers? > Never hear of a true Indian named Mississippi? > ;) > I would like to hear about these names. > Once we ran a thread about surname and I started a web page, then, it got > lost. > The web page is still there. I will post it when I find it. lol. > Its not on this laptop. > Ahh, it was in google > http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/cheronames2.html > also was this > http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.matney/56.85.100/mb.ashx > > Dan >