What's In a Name?
The writing prompt for week 6 (Hooray! I'm caught up!) is "Favorite Name". Favorite name? Do you know how completely impossible that seems for someone who does family history research? To begin with, these folks on my tree are more than names. The more you learn about them and the places and time that they lived in, the more you begin to feel like you actually know them, somehow. So how do you choose between "favorites", when they all have such interesting stories? Like my great-great grandfather with the perfectly ordinary name of George Rogers, but who was the son of William, who was the son of George, who was the son of William, who was the son of George? Or folks with unusual surnames, that left you wondering how their families came to be named Looney, Cross, Smelley, or Hart? On my husband's tree there are names like Dukes, Doom, Craft and Royall. There are place names like Houston and London ... so many to choose from, and all favorites in their own w...