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1 posted on 01/26/2025 1:24:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Jingleheimer-Smith


2 posted on 01/26/2025 1:26:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Benson didn’t look Norwegian to me.


4 posted on 01/26/2025 1:27:52 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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biden...


5 posted on 01/26/2025 1:28:12 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁 )
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But what about "Ward" as a given name? I think it means "Beaver Watcher."


6 posted on 01/26/2025 1:28:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.”.)
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"...there were too many Wangs for the new regime to target any specific royal family."

The current British royal family also has an over-abundance of wangs.

7 posted on 01/26/2025 1:29:02 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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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.


8 posted on 01/26/2025 1:29:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Have you traced your family tree?


“In my family tree, I’m the sap.” - Rodney Dangerfield


9 posted on 01/26/2025 1:30:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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”.


12 posted on 01/26/2025 1:39:26 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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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.


14 posted on 01/26/2025 1:43:49 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (NewRome Tacitus)
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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


15 posted on 01/26/2025 1:43:49 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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“Mc” son of

“O’” related to.

Roughly.

I traced back one branch. McLean/McLain.

Sean Connery a VERY distant relative.


16 posted on 01/26/2025 1:45:14 PM PST by TexasGator (11.111''!11)
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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.


18 posted on 01/26/2025 1:48:04 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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If you go back 7 generations you end up with 64 different last names, baring incestuous relations... That’s a lot of different last names.


22 posted on 01/26/2025 2:05:22 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Bkmk


26 posted on 01/26/2025 2:18:03 PM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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My last name can be found in the King James Bible, in the begats.


34 posted on 01/26/2025 3:03:13 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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I’m a descendant of Rev. Brewster, the spiritual leader of Plymouth Colony. I also have Lee blood. I have one President in my ancestry and share a birthday with one.


38 posted on 01/26/2025 3:10:54 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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There was an insurance agent in a town about 20 miles from where I live named Richard M. Nixon. I always laughed when I saw his sign at his office.


39 posted on 01/26/2025 3:14:56 PM PST by gopno1
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My understanding of the background of my name is that it came about by a mistake at Ellis Island. My ancestors were supposedly members of the MacKenzie Clan living in Ireland in a small village named either Castle Leigh or Castleleigh. When processing thru Ellis Island, the Registrar misunderstood an answer (or my ancestors misunderstood the question) and wrote down the family surname as Costley (I guess from how my ggg-parent pronounced "Castle Leigh").

Well, that's the verbal family history of our name ...

42 posted on 01/26/2025 3:41:42 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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Catholics in name only have nothing to be proud of. Everything perverted, as Pelosi says, is a sacred right to them.


43 posted on 01/26/2025 3:48:38 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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Occupational names such as Baker, Farmer, Mason, Miller, are common names .


44 posted on 01/26/2025 3:51:06 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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