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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: What would you rename my family, mixing and matching the names?” plus 4 more

Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: What would you rename my family, mixing and matching the names?” plus 4 more


Question: What would you rename my family, mixing and matching the names?

Posted: 19 Oct 2014 07:22 PM PDT

I'm listing my siblings, parents, aunts, and uncles first names. What would you name them if you mix and match to make first + middle combos? So there would be 5 girls and 4 boys.

Donna
Brenda
Colette
Arlene
Gail
Eleanor
Helen
Lorraine
Sharon
Krista

Neil
Gerard
Bernard
Edmund
Roy
David
Melvin
Brandon

Question: Can you help me find the Charles Robert Tanner family tree?

Posted: 19 Oct 2014 05:27 PM PDT

This one or did you have some other bloke in mind?
You may find an online tree but they are notoriously unreliable. If you are truly interested in your ancestry you are better off to research it carefully yourself, one generation at a time.

London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 about Charles Robert Tanner
Name: Charles Robert Tanner
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 2 Dec 1877
Father's Name: Robert Tanner
Mother's name: Elizabeth Susannah Tanner
Parish or Poor Law Union: Bermondsey Christ Church
Borough: Southwark
Register Type: Parish Registers

Question: Where can I find a FREE FAKE birth certificate online?

Posted: 19 Oct 2014 04:15 PM PDT

Where can I find a FREE FAKE birth certificate online?

I have a school project (flour sack baby :)), and the birth certificate must include the doctor's name in addition to all of the other basic info. Does anyone know of a (fake) birth certificate website that includes a place for a doctor's name? Microsoft Word doesn't have a template. Thanks in advance :)

Question: Name change before college help?

Posted: 19 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT

Name change before college help?

Im changing my name from my fathers entire name as I am a junior and Im changing it to a completely unrelated name so he cannot find me. But all my school records are in my name but with my mothers last name I have tons of proof of i.d for my fathers last name (birth certificate,passport.) and mothers last name (school id. and entire school records as well as medical records). Because I am changing to a name unrelated to both my mothers and fathers last name how could i apply to college if my school records don't match my new name what do i need to provide to prove the name change to college. heres what i mean My name is Alex James Smith my fathers name but in all my school records its alex james kanter my moms last name but I'm changing it to tristan paul thomas. How do i prove my school records are me even if they don't match my changed name and my fathers last name.

Question: What is an "Octoroon" on 1910 census?

Posted: 19 Oct 2014 03:47 PM PDT

There used to be specific words for specific ancestries:
Mulatto = 1/2 black, 1/2 white
Quadroon = 1/4 black, 3/4 white
Octroon 1/8 black, 7/8 white

You can still see "quadroon" in the Mark Twain novel "Puddin' Head Wilson", I believe.

The problem was that few people even today can name how many white great grandparents and how many black ones they had, so the names got misapplied. (It was important, in the days of segregated schools and sitting in the back of the bus, and not being allowed to marry a white women, to define just how much black blood you had to have to be counted as the word that sounds like "knee grow" and Y!A asterisks out.)

So, those were the theory. In reality, on the census, it was the enumerators best guess at how much of each the people were. An Octroon would be someone who looked almost white. The term "high yellow", also left over from the bad old days, referred to some one with a known Black ancestor who looked almost white.

What your other ancestry was DID count; in some states you could sit in the front of the bus and send your kids to the good schools if you had 1/16 African-American or less, but the rest had to be white or you were just another colored person, so go to the back of the bus, thank you very much. Someone with 1/4 Cherokee or Chocktaw, for instance (there were some; about 97% less than legends would have,though) and 1/16 Black would be considered colored and a second-class citizen.

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