Hmmmmm - Good post Deborah. I had not heard of GERTHA before. A random search on google, by luck of the draw, produced http://www.nameplayground.com/Gertha which shows an association between GERTHA and GERTIE. A search on the same site under GERTRUDE does NOT show an association. Ergo : the odds then favor GERTHA and not GERTRUDE. In the end, and if this is an important point to others, more research would be required. Tomasz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Deborah Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > my husband had a great aunt Gertie --- it was short for Gertha. that is > another possibility. > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:06 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> To the list: Sometime back, some of us were discussing VERA KULA, who >> married JOSEPH MOSTEK. I cannot for the life of me remember if we ever came >> up with her parents names. But today I was going through the >> familysearch.org site, and the names came up from the Nebraska Marriages. >> Looks like the fathers name was probably Lawrence, but what does Gertie >> stand for? Thanks. >>