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- Surname Saturday: CONCIDINE by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Nov 14, 2009
The CONCIDINE surname belongs to my maternal grandmother's adoptive mother. My grandmother was an adoptee, and I have been highlighting both her biological and her adoptive families' surnames in my Surname Saturday posts. I use the letter B to distin...
- Surname Saturday: BARBER by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Oct 31, 2009
The BARBER surname belongs to my maternal grandmother's biological mother. My grandmother was an adoptee, and I will be highlighting both her biological and her adoptive families' surnames in my Surname Saturday posts.The BARBER name is an very old o...
- Surname Saturday: TOLLIVER by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Oct 18, 2009
My father-in-law's paternal grandmother was the last in my husband's family to be born with the TOLLIVER surname. In my husband's family tree, it was often spelled "Toliver."There is a very famous Southern family with the surname TALIAFERRO which is...
- Surname Saturday: LEWIS by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Oct 10, 2009
The LEWIS family is my paternal grandfather's mother's line, and it is a name that is perpetuated into the present. It was my paternal grandfather's middle name, and is also my youngest nephew's middle name (he was born on my grandfather's birthday).
- Surname Saturday: MARTIN by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Aug 29, 2009
The MARTIN line is my husband's maternal grandmother's family. They originated from Strasbourg in what is now Alsace-Lorraine, France. This area has been fought over by the Germans and French for a couple of centuries and so the location name has con...
- Surname Saturday: HOEKSTRA by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Aug 22, 2009
The HOEKSTRA line is my maternal grandmother's line. The name is Frisian and means "from the corner." In English, it is pronounced "HOOK-struh." There are many, many people with this surname whose roots originated from the provinces of Friesland and...
- Surname Saturday: WESTABY by AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors on Aug 15, 2009
The WESTABY line is my husband's paternal grandmother's line. Although common in spelling to WESTBY and WESTOBY, I've found that the former tends to be Scandinavian, while the latter seems to have similar roots to his WESTABYs: from the area of Yorks...
