I have no idea who this person is responding to. Could everyone please indicate to WHOM they are responding and put the first known ancestral GIVEN NAME (we all know they are Stones,) a DATE (even approximate), and a PLACE in the subject line? There is so much mail on this list that this format would aid all of us---and this is not the only list most of us subscribe to. I, too, get a great deal of E-mail for my many families, and check the subject line to determine if I need to even open the mail. Pam pamstone@digital.net -----Original Message----- From: cora matheson <hopering@mcn.org> To: STONE-L@rootsweb.com <STONE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [STONE] (no subject) >Re: names > >I had an Uncle Elba which you would think would be pronounced "L-ba" but >everyone in the family has always called him "El-bee". > >A great uncle was always called Uncle Ed. He was a bachelor who ended >up raising his nephew when his parents died. When he married at 66, his >wife assumed him name was Edward and got him to make his legal papers as >Edward. But, when he died and we got into family records more, we found >his name was actually Edwin. > >My grandfather was William Clayton Wilson and everyone called him Jake >and that is the name he used when he signed his name. > >In some cases I think misspelling or mispronunciation may have come from >the >simple fact that not everyone could read and write. Even Oprah's >parents misspelled her name and she is called by the name the way it was >spelled and not the name they meant for her to be called. > >Genealogy can be a challenge. It is either something like the above or >your brick wall is a common name like John Stone. . . . . >Cora > > >============================== >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 >