Jean - Nellie is usually short for Eleanor. HOWEVER - you can't guarantee that such a name is a nickname. In the previous discussion about Nettie - my great-grandmother was only NETTIE. It was not short for anything else. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R. Wall (Janeczek)" <middlebrat@comcast.net> To: <PAHUNTIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 6:50 AM Subject: nicknames > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --Boundary_(ID_6SqkR1BiInq9Dq52W6KX2Q) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > Hi list, > > I have a great Aunt I am looking for information on. She is listed in > Census information as Nellie, her parents were from Austria (or Poland > depending on time period). > > Is anyone familiar with whether that was a nickname or given name? > > Thanks, > Jean > > --Boundary_(ID_6SqkR1BiInq9Dq52W6KX2Q) > Content-type: text/x-vcard; name="Jean R. Wall (Janeczek).vcf" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > Content-disposition: attachment; filename="Jean R. Wall (Janeczek).vcf" > > BEGIN:VCARD > VERSION:2.1 > N:Wall (Janeczek);Jean R. > FN:Jean R. Wall (Janeczek) > EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:middlebrat@comcast.net > REV:20030210T135048Z > END:VCARD > > --Boundary_(ID_6SqkR1BiInq9Dq52W6KX2Q)-- > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237