Since I don’t like jobs half done, I’ve got to see what the surname counts are in my other databases. This is the second database for my Jones-Jackson lines. I’ll be using RootsMagic to make my calculations. There are 182 surnames in this database. My top 10 surnames in this database are… Pohley 44 Jones…
Tag: Surnames
SNGF: How Many Surnames?
Tonight’s challenge from Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musing’s blog is to run some surname statistics. I’m using RootsMagic to do my computations. As my tree is separated into three databases, I’ll use the Pacheco – de Braga database for this test. It’ll be the most impressive. LOL While RootsMagic can give me a list of all the…
Surname Saturday: Jones
I have been blessed to have some of the most common surnames every to have existed on the face of the Earth! Today’s surname is: Jones The Jones family has been quite tricky. My line starts with John Joseph Jones, b. ca 1815 in Wales. John made his way to Australia sometime before 1840. I…
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…
Wordle Thy Ancestors
For my next Winter Genea Bloggers challenge, I played around with Wordle. It’s a fun little application that allows you to fill in a box with text. Then it creates a Wordle…a representation of your word list in living color. I decided to do a Wordle based on my ancestor surnames. This is not a…