Hi Julia I don't think I can take Cissie or Sissy on board as a pet name for Jessie; it's generally thought to be for Cecily, as I understand it. As you may have detected, for sometime now I have been developing a web-site covering Forenames. I've started with Scottish ones but am extending it to include Latin Equivalents for old documents and Gaelic versions. It gives Synonyms, Pet Names, [i.e. Nick-names], Derivatives and Diminutives/Abbreviations. It is nearly ready for launch and I want interested people to give it a good rubbishing. The site is at http://www.whatsinaname.net/index.html The CONTACT US button works and I would welcome ANY comment and, in particular, suggestions for improvements. We are going to go over the presentational aspect of the layout soon - buttons down the left side, some grey background, a tighter heading, etc, but honestly, any suggestions at all would be very useful. Best wishes and thanks for your input. Ray H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Mudd" <j.m.mudd@dundee.ac.uk> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: Re:[MORAY] Jessie > My Nanna was christened Jessie, in 1922, but most of the time was > called > Cissie (Sissy - quite a strange name in todays times!). > > The Janets or Jessies I have found in her tree were her 2nd Great > Grandmother (Janet 1802), Great Grand Aunt (Janet - 1838) and Grand > Aunt > (Jessie - 1861). These were all on her maternal Grandmothers side and > theres been none since. > > Julia > Dundee, Scotland > > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > Please do not send virus warnings to this list. If you have concerns > about a virus, contact the list admin at MORAY-D-request@rootsweb.com > or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject > line. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >

Hi everyone, I have another one for your website, Ray. My husband's grandmother's name was Mary but her marriage cert. gave her forename as Ciss. The family has no idea where the name came from. Gay -----Original Message----- From: Ray Hennessy [mailto:rayhennessy@iclway.co.uk] Sent: December 15, 2004 8:23 AM To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Re:[MORAY] Jessie Hi Julia I don't think I can take Cissie or Sissy on board as a pet name for Jessie; it's generally thought to be for Cecily, as I understand it. As you may have detected, for sometime now I have been developing a web-site covering Forenames. I've started with Scottish ones but am extending it to include Latin Equivalents for old documents and Gaelic versions. It gives Synonyms, Pet Names, [i.e. Nick-names], Derivatives and Diminutives/Abbreviations. It is nearly ready for launch and I want interested people to give it a good rubbishing. The site is at http://www.whatsinaname.net/index.html The CONTACT US button works and I would welcome ANY comment and, in particular, suggestions for improvements. We are going to go over the presentational aspect of the layout soon - buttons down the left side, some grey background, a tighter heading, etc, but honestly, any suggestions at all would be very useful. Best wishes and thanks for your input. Ray H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Mudd" <j.m.mudd@dundee.ac.uk> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: Re:[MORAY] Jessie > My Nanna was christened Jessie, in 1922, but most of the time was > called > Cissie (Sissy - quite a strange name in todays times!). > > The Janets or Jessies I have found in her tree were her 2nd Great > Grandmother (Janet 1802), Great Grand Aunt (Janet - 1838) and Grand > Aunt > (Jessie - 1861). These were all on her maternal Grandmothers side and > theres been none since. > > Julia > Dundee, Scotland > > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > Please do not send virus warnings to this list. If you have concerns > about a virus, contact the list admin at MORAY-D-request@rootsweb.com > or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject > line. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== MORAY OPR's. The OPR's for the Moray area are now starting to be transcribed and volunteers are needed. Would anyone interested in transcribing the OPR's for our area please contact me via my usual email address or visit the Moray Rootsweb pages and contact me via the mailing list Admin. ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

Hi List Ooops as they say! I hadn't intended the note to Julia to be circulated far and wide - I forgot to adjust the "To" box. The WHAT'S IN A NAME website will be in a state of FLUX for the next two weeks and will not be able to cope with a large load until the New Year. So far I've asked about 50-60 people to help me de-bug the system and point out the rough edges and the 40 who have replied have responded favourably. So, if anyone on the MORAY list is sufficiently intrigued to have a look at the site [http://www.whatsinaname.net/index.html] please do so and let me know if you have ANY feelings about it. One additional thing to point out. People have asked to be able to browse the list of names. You could do that by searching on a plain asterisk [*] but be aware that you'll get about 2000 names and variations back which will [a] gum up your link and [b] take a lots of reading time. If you want to browse names beginning with B, search on B* and you'll get that subset. Have fun and please do let me know what you think via the CONTACT US button. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Hennessy" <rayhennessy@iclway.co.uk> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Re:[MORAY] Jessie > Hi Julia > > I don't think I can take Cissie or Sissy on board as a pet name for > Jessie; it's generally thought to be for Cecily, as I understand it. > > As you may have detected, for sometime now I have been developing a > web-site covering Forenames. I've started with Scottish ones but am > extending it to include Latin Equivalents for old documents and Gaelic > versions. It gives Synonyms, Pet Names, [i.e. Nick-names], > Derivatives and Diminutives/Abbreviations. It is nearly ready for > launch and I want interested people to give it a good rubbishing. The > site is at > http://www.whatsinaname.net/index.html > > The CONTACT US button works and I would welcome ANY comment and, in > particular, suggestions for improvements. We are going to go over the > presentational aspect of the layout soon - buttons down the left side, > some grey background, a tighter heading, etc, but honestly, any > suggestions at all would be very useful. > > Best wishes and thanks for your input. > > Ray H >