In a message dated 5/10/2005 5:56:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Usually, the Priest just added "Mary" to a girl's name to make it a > Christian name! I think they used "John" for boys. You often see M. Brenda > or the > like in a person's name. > You will shake your head at this one, Joan. Sandra (birth), Anna M. (baptism), and Mary (confirmation) ... but they called me Marilyn (school records) until I discovered my 'real' name when I applied for my birth certificate at eighteen!!! What was the saying? "You can call me anything ... but don't call me late for dinner!" :))) Could be why I am so obsessed with genealogy. I want my descendants to know "who" I was by my right name. Sandra

My Grandmother (born in Virovitica) was proud of her self-education once she got to America. She read all of Dickens, for example, and her reading library was large. Because of this, she called her last child Darwin. He lived with that until quite late in life when he discovered he was really John Darwin! Peg On May 11, 2005, at 1:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 5/10/2005 5:56:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > >> Usually, the Priest just added "Mary" to a girl's name to make it a >> Christian name! I think they used "John" for boys. You often see >> M. Brenda >> or the >> like in a person's name. >> >> > You will shake your head at this one, Joan. Sandra (birth), Anna M. > (baptism), and Mary (confirmation) ... but they called me Marilyn > (school records) > until I discovered my 'real' name when I applied for my birth > certificate at > eighteen!!! What was the saying? "You can call me anything ... but > don't call me > late for dinner!" :))) > > Could be why I am so obsessed with genealogy. I want my descendants > to know > "who" I was by my right name. > Sandra > > >