Posted on 01/26/2025 1:24:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Jingleheimer-Smith
Hey, that’s my name.
Benson didn’t look Norwegian to me.
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The current British royal family also has an over-abundance of wangs.
I bet that there is a very high chance that when you meet an Indian who wears a turban, the family name will be SINGH.
The surname “Singh” is more widespread than “Patel.” ( the other very popular Indian surname ).
Singh is a common surname among Sikhs and is also used by many Hindu communities, especially in North India. It is derived from the Sanskrit word “Simha,” meaning lion.
Have you traced your family tree?
“In my family tree, I’m the sap.” - Rodney Dangerfield
It says that in the native American communities.
That a white man was doing some teepee hopping
Most of my family has been traced back to the seventeenth century, at least, however most of the information in Europe at least prior to 1600 is extremely sketchy. As I was working on my husband’s family, I gave him the name of an ancestor I just found. He laughed and said the surname translated to “Hell Dog”.
If I remember correctly Patel and Singh are like smith and jones in English speaking countries. Patel is from farming, business, government families and Singh was from part of the warrior caste but lots of families from multiple castes adopted it so it’s now a common last name. Where I work we have a lot folks with last name of Patel.
Good story about my first name which many think is Russian or Slavic:
Parental units were teaching two-year-old Michael how to print his name. He said “No - girl name.”
“What do you mean that’s a girl’s name?”
“Mih-chell.”
“How do you think your name SHOULD be spelled?”
I printed ‘MIKEL’.
“Dang, he’s right. It’s more phonetically correct.”
So they sent for the document and got my name legally changed for the world’s youngest case of Macho Complex.
My last name is below. From what I gather, it means my family came from Ulm, Germany.
Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm
“Mc” son of
“O’” related to.
Roughly.
I traced back one branch. McLean/McLain.
Sean Connery a VERY distant relative.
I wonder if he knows Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel
I can trace my family name all the way back to Napoleon.
When Napoleon conquered Europe, he formed civil govt instead of church govt. You had to go to the local court house and register your new name. If some one else picked your name you had to choose something else but someone in the next country could choose that name. Just because you had the same last name didn’t mean you were related. Dad always said our name meant “pleasant valley with bird song.”
Some chose funny names like stuckenbruck (stuck in pants) or “out house” thinking Napolean wouldn’t last but then they were stuck with those names. All those dutch names mean something.
My paternal ancestors came from Kidwelly, Wales. A poverty-stricken teenaged brother and sister walked to a port in England and were sent to Nevis, a Caribbean island. He cut down trees so the Black slaves could plant sugar when they arrived later and she was a spinner. I don’t think they were paid. After three years, they were dropped off on the shore of North Carolina.
Where the heck are my reparations?
And, btw, the first time I laid eyes on a Welsh Corgi, I knew I had to have one. That was in 1966, and our family has had them ever since. Didn’t know until later that our ancestors came from Wales.
I looked for a person recently online who my husband and I knew in the aviation community in OC, CA many years ago. His last name was Machado and someone wrote “he was half German and half Portuguese, which he claims gives him a genetic predisposition to conquer a country and then go fishing”.
I’m sure the words were his own as he was quite a comedian along with superb flying skills.
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