Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: My mothers last name was Moreno?” plus 2 more |
- Question: My mothers last name was Moreno?
- Question: Listing of deaths in 2012 in Maine?
- Question: I want to know more about my french ancestry?
| Question: My mothers last name was Moreno? Posted: 07 Nov 2015 05:15 PM PST This is what the Dictionary of American Family Names have about Moreno Moreno Name Meaning Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): nickname for someone with dark hair and a swarthy complexion, from Spanish and Portuguese moreno 'dark-haired', a word of uncertain origin, probably from Late Latin maurinus, a derivative of classical Latin Maurus 'Moor'. Compare Moore 2. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press Understand the Native Americans did not have surnames. They were conveyed on the Indigenous people of the Americas by Spanish missionaries. Actually from the standpoint of recorded historical time, they were fairly new for Europeans. So if your mother has Native American ancestry knowing her surname will not tell us anything about the tribe to which she belonged.  |
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| Question: I want to know more about my french ancestry? Posted: 07 Nov 2015 07:55 AM PST Don't trust online family trees whether from a free website or a fee website like Ancestry.Com without verifying the information with actual records. The trees are submitted by the subscribers to the websites and no, the websites do not hire people to verify the information their subscribers submit. It would cost a cool fortune. Even when you see the absolute same info on the same people from a ton of subscribers that doesn't mean it is accurate as too many copy without verifying. Also don't get overly involved in researching surnames. Surnames in themselves do not have a family history. Your ancestors with the surnames did. They weren't started originally to identify someone as a member of a family but just to better identify him on records. Too many men with the same given name in the same town or village and they had to have a better way to sort them out. When they got through legitimate sons of the same man could have wound up with a different surname and still each could have shared his with others with no known relationship. There are lot of surname product peddlers who would like for people to think their surname has a family history. Those are the people who sell surname history scrolls and so called "family coat of arms." Coats of arms were granted to individual (and sometimes assumed in continental European countries). A good way to tell that a coat of arms was purchased from a surname product peddler is it will have a surname on a scroll underneath and sometimes over it. Coats of arms that have been validly granted or assumed will not have a surname anywhere attached. Why should it? The man it belongs to knows it is his and he knows what his name is. In genealogy you start with yourself and work back one generation at a time, documenting everything as you do. Start with your own birth certificate. It has the names of both of your parents including your mother's maiden name. According to when and where your grandparents were born, there should be one for them. Death certificates usually also have the names of both parents including mother's maiden name. Now it wasn't until the first quarter of the 20th century that most states in the U.S. started recording births and deaths. So before then you need to use church records, wills, deeds, family bibles. The 1850 census is the first census that listed all family members. Maybe some of your family has some of the records on your ancestors that I mentioned. Depending on the religious faith of your ancestors, baptismal, confirmation, marriage and death records from churches can frequently be just as helpful if not more so than civil records. Genealogist strive to have 3 documents verifying the information on any one person. Not always easy. Have you tried a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. If you find anything at all in their database you would like to view and print off a copy of an original document, they can order microfilm for you for about $5. They have the microfilm readers at the FHC. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. A lot of their volunteers are not Mormon. Use the following link to find the nearest Mormon FHC. |
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