On my reference shelf, I keep several books entitled something like "Name your Baby" which give a lot of information in a small packet. The older editions which are actually more useful for genealogy purposes can be picked up for next to nothing. I do have to chuckle because hints for naming are: 'avoid unusual spellings' and 'no one wants to go through life hearing his name mispronounced'. My book gives this for GERTRUDE: Origin: Teutonic Meaning: 'spear maiden' Dminatives: Gerta, Gerti, Gertie, Gerty, Trude, Trudy. On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:06:44 GMT "[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes: > > 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. > > Joseph Mostek > Groom's Birth Date: 1878 > Groom's Birthplace: > Groom's Age: 23 > Bride's Name: Vera Kula > Bride's Birth Date: 1878 > Bride's Birthplace: > Bride's Age: 23 > Marriage Date: 08 Feb 1901 > Marriage Place: Lancaster, Nebraska > Groom's Father's Name: Geo. Mostek > Groom's Mother's Name: Katie Mostek > Bride's Father's Name: Loran Kula > Bride's Mother's Name: Gertie Kula > Groom's Race:
Hmmmmm - Well, guess we are back at square 1 again. So, GERTIE has a chance at both GERTHA and GERTRUDE. I wonder what the association is between GERTHA and GERTRUDE ?? Hoffman/Helon's -First names of the Polish commonwealth, origins and meanings- address only GERTRUDE and not GERTHA at all. Perhaps GERTHA is an offshoot of GERTRUDE. Thankfully, Kathy has to sort this all out (smile). Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On my reference shelf, I keep several books entitled something like > "Name your Baby" which give a lot of information in a small packet. The > older editions which are actually more useful for genealogy purposes can > be picked up for next to nothing. > > I do have to chuckle because hints for naming are: 'avoid unusual > spellings' and 'no one wants to go through life hearing his name > mispronounced'. > > My book gives this for GERTRUDE: Origin: Teutonic Meaning: 'spear > maiden' > Dminatives: Gerta, Gerti, Gertie, Gerty, Trude, Trudy. > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:06:44 GMT "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> writes: > >> >> 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. >> >> Joseph Mostek >> Groom's Birth Date: 1878 >> Groom's Birthplace: >> Groom's Age: 23 >> Bride's Name: Vera Kula >> Bride's Birth Date: 1878 >> Bride's Birthplace: >> Bride's Age: 23 >> Marriage Date: 08 Feb 1901 >> Marriage Place: Lancaster, Nebraska >> Groom's Father's Name: Geo. Mostek >> Groom's Mother's Name: Katie Mostek >> Bride's Father's Name: Loran Kula >> Bride's Mother's Name: Gertie Kula >> Groom's Race: > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message