This may be obvious to some, but is the name "Emma" a variation of "Emily"? On a related note, is there a database somewhere online that lists name abbreviations and variations? If not, would anyone else find such a thing useful? Mark -- Mark Morley, British Columbia, Canada mark@kinweb.org Researching: MORLEY, SANDERSON, GREGORY, STOCKMAN, FRANCIS, LOCKHART, DENYER CAVE, STEPHENSON, WUERCH, WIESE, ... and hundreds more ...

Technically I would say it is not. I know two people named Emma and neither one is an Emily. I think the nick for Emily is Emmy. Hard to tell what families or enumerators meant by their spelling. The Cranky Genee On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:52:02 -0000, mark@kinweb.org wrote: >This may be obvious to some, but is the name "Emma" a variation of "Emily"? > >On a related note, is there a database somewhere online that lists name >abbreviations and variations? > >If not, would anyone else find such a thing useful? > >Mark > >-- >Mark Morley, British Columbia, Canada mark@kinweb.org > >Researching: MORLEY, SANDERSON, GREGORY, STOCKMAN, FRANCIS, LOCKHART, DENYER > CAVE, STEPHENSON, WUERCH, WIESE, ... and hundreds more ...

mark@kinweb.org wrote: > On a related note, is there a database somewhere online that lists name > abbreviations and variations? I don't know about online, but I've seen at least one book on the subject. --Charlene -- How can "crash course" and "collision course" have two different meanings? -- George Carlin ===== Free Book Searches (out-of-print, hard-to-find, foreign, used, new) - mailto:findbook@flash.net