Tag Archives: Portuguese Names
Answers to the Game
I hope you’ve all had a chance to go over the passenger list posted Saturday and have tried your hand at reading the names. This is what I came up with. After you’ve played, post some comments. Do your answers match mine? Do you think I’ve got anything wrong? Did you enjoy working on this? …
Let’s Play a Game for Labor Day Weekend!
I thought we’d have some fun over the holiday weekend. This is a translation game. I had a passenger list that I forgot to note the ship’s name on. I went back to the ellis island website and then to ancestry.com, but I couldn’t find the darn thing! Eventually, I used stevemorse.org to identify which …
Problem with Names Part 3: Well, We Never Called Her That
Researchers usually don’t get very far before they find an ancestor who seems impossible to find. Many times this is because they are used to calling their ancestor by a certain name when, in fact, they were named something else. Names evolve, shorten, and modernize over time. Taking an ancestor from what everyone called them …