naming patterns
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Re: naming patterns
Okay, so I'm several years late .... but, we genealogists are faced with a number of name challenges. There are the intentional name changes made to 'blend in' or feel more at home in the New Country (changing from Borjesson to Burgess, perhaps); there are the pronunciation differences (I am never sure when I've really found an ancestor in ship's manifests mainly because these are what a ship's officer filled in, not what a passenger might intend); and then there are the transcription differences (my ancestors have shown up in the Census transcriptions as Burger, as Binger, and as Burgess - the name I have known them as though, was always Burgess).
And people who had several middle names, seem to have been particularly casual about which ones they used at any given era!!
And people who had several middle names, seem to have been particularly casual about which ones they used at any given era!!