And I do have a true story to support this naming anomoly, still being done today apparently. Back somewhere between 1991 (hs graduation) and 1996 (when she married) my 3rd daughter got a phone call from someone named Sargent Pike. Since she had also had a few military recruiters calling, trying to talk her into joining one branch of the service or another, I assumed this Sargent Pike was a military recruiter, and I told her that when I called her to the phone. She corrected me, saying that "Sargent" (however it's spelled) was his real name, and he was a member of the Singles ward. Alice Allen Oakhurst Ward Family History Consultant Vancouver WA Stake Portland OR Temple District *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/9/2009 at 5:10 PM Sahara346@aol.com wrote: >I have men in my family tree named Colonel & General (two different >families). They show up in the records with those names as children. >Normally, >of course, those are both military ranks. And I know of a good many >African Americans who give their kids various royal titles as given >names. So we >need to remember when we see a name that what we're most familiar with as >a title, is not always a title. These various names most comonly used as >military or social ranks are not just a recent phenomenon as with Queen >Latifa and Prince, but can be found in historic records as well. > >Karen >