Thanks Toni and Mayina for your information. Jacquie Winnipeg, MB Canada -----Original Message----- From: sct-edinburgh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sct-edinburgh-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Trena Sent: November 19, 2008 7:42 PM To: sct-edinburgh@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] What's in a name - Marion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacquie" Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:05 PM Subject: [SCT-EDINBURGH] What's in a name - Marion > The first researcher indicated Minnie was most common as a nickname for > forenames ending with "ina" You might want to check out the following: http://www.whatsinaname.net/ In my family, be they from the Shetland Islands, the NE of Scotland or Glasgow, any of our names ending in 'ina', seem to have become 'Ina'. Thomasina, Christina, Christian, Gillian, Georgina, Williamina, Robertina, Andrina & Alexandrina, to name a few with this ending. Some of these names have been carried into the last and present generations, then shortened to 'Ina'. To be honest, with several of them, I'd prefer the original if it were my name! We've a few ancestors whose names end in 'ine', but I'm not sure about them. I do have a cousin in Glasgow who named her daughter Katherine, but the wee tyke is called 'Ina' by the elders of the families. Toni