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From: Lorraine Moore <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] birth name
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 20:22:50 -0500


My husband's KENNEDYs did it, too. They were from County Kerry, Ireland.
Trying to separate the John Kennedy sons and cousins is quite as much fun
as was searching for his great grandfather, John SMITH--luckily John Smith
always used his middle name or initial.....John Richmind Smith was easy to
find -- except for his naturalization papers.

Lorraine

At 09:16 AM 4/7/98 -0400, hobnail wrote:
>K DeFoster wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 98-04-06 21:46:13 EDT, you write:
>>
>> << In the case of my maternal grandfather, his parents had a son named
>> James (Imre after the father,) that died as a baby. But then strangely
>> enough, later they had a second son and also named him James. Same odd
>> thing ocurred with my maternal grandmother. The first baby named Suzannah
>> died, and the next female baby was also named Suzannah (my grandmother).
>> >>
>>
>> I've found it to be a very common practice in different ethnics groups
of my
>> family. The Italians do it and so do the Scots. And it was a common
practice
>> in early New England.
>>
>> Thanks for the info on naming practices. That's a new one to me.
>>
>> Aloha,
>>
>> Kathy McConnell DeFoster
>> Kailua, Hawaii........searching for BUZA from Budapest
>
>
>I have also found it to be a very common practice in my family who were
>Danube Swabians-Germans in Hungary.
>
>Janice Danks
>
>
>

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