Don't forget Founder as in Founding Fathers Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net ________________________________ From: "laptop@strudwicke.com" <laptop@strudwicke.com> To: goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [G] Searching for a word (or phrase) Seems there is not a common term, but plenty of alternatives so far. A term I use when dealing with written pedigrees is 'treetop'. 'Progenitor', already mentioned, or perhaps 'primogenitor' would be my pick of the bunch. cheers Marcus Strudwicke Mallala, Australia _____________________________________________ Information and admin page: http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
A term used in South Africa is stam-vader, a rough translation would "father of the tribe" Allan Beeby GOONS 6519 (BEEBY) On 23 April 2017 at 02:46, Marie Byatt <morris12m@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Don't forget Founder as in Founding Fathers > > > Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A > Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' > http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study > http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and > Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com > 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "laptop@strudwicke.com" <laptop@strudwicke.com> > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:15 PM > Subject: Re: [G] Searching for a word (or phrase) > > > > Seems there is not a common term, but plenty of alternatives so far. A term > I use when dealing with written pedigrees is 'treetop'. > 'Progenitor', already mentioned, or perhaps 'primogenitor' would be my > pick > of the bunch. > cheers > Marcus Strudwicke > Mallala, Australia > > > > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >
I LOVE all these answers. Thank you all! My own personal winners would be MDKA or EKA. I actually use Patriarch a lot because my primary objective is identifying YDNA Haplotype (an excuse for side-stepping Matriarch, although, fact of the matter is that females are the name-giver at times. Mainly I need to settle on a terminology to use consistently with my ONS peeps. Thank you one and all! Doug On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Allan Beeby <allan.beeby@gmail.com> wrote: > A term used in South Africa is stam-vader, a rough translation would > "father of the tribe" > > Allan Beeby > GOONS 6519 (BEEBY) > > On 23 April 2017 at 02:46, Marie Byatt <morris12m@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> Don't forget Founder as in Founding Fathers >> >> >> Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A >> Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' >> http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study >> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and >> Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com >> 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: "laptop@strudwicke.com" <laptop@strudwicke.com> >> To: goons@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:15 PM >> Subject: Re: [G] Searching for a word (or phrase) >> >> >> >> Seems there is not a common term, but plenty of alternatives so far. A term >> I use when dealing with written pedigrees is 'treetop'. >> 'Progenitor', already mentioned, or perhaps 'primogenitor' would be my >> pick >> of the bunch. >> cheers >> Marcus Strudwicke >> Mallala, Australia >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> Information and admin page: >> http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> _____________________________________________ >> >> Information and admin page: >> http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message