This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FdQBAEB/117.149.1 Message Board Post: For many years, I have been researching the origins of the very unusual name, Gadi. My 3rd gr. grandfather was Gadi Cook, son of John Cook (b. 1747 in S.C.). I have found that all the men named Gadi in S.C. came from the Pee Dee Region and all or most seem to have descended in one of their lines from Gideon Gibson of Va. (born early 1700's) who also settled in that region. My Cooks legends are similar to those told by some of the Gibson descendants. My Cook ancestor was said to be "Gypsy" (possibly the PA German Gypsies who were called "Black Dutch") and "Portuguese (or Spanish)" The Portuguese blood happened somehow because of Pirates off the coast of S.C. I would very much appreciate help from anyone who has an ancestor named Gadi. I need to know any oral tradition regarding their origins, and how the name was pronounced by the ancestor (not by the way it is assumed to have been pronounced). I believe there is a common link to all of these families who had children ! named Gadi and if we find it, we could all benefit