Friday, September 14, 2007 - Family and Genealogy Searches
Amanda was online last night with a group of other homeschooler friends. They were talking about for a project they are working on and discussing domain names. We all had fun, getting our creative juices flowing, thinking out loud. We continued this morning, thinking of names and words that might encompass their ideas.
Then, I thought I might see if a couple of other domains were taken. You can check if your domain is taken of several different sites, but I just put the url in on a couple of them. You know, a big business is to buy up domains that are searched often and sell them. I remember when Spunky said that someone offered to sell her spunkyhomeschool.com for $400. Um, yeah... right. Some we looked at were:
Sillydreamer - taken.
superangel - taken.
dixonfamily - taken.
I searched the other Dixon Family domains to see if they were taken and found this: DixonFamily.net
Have you ever searched your name or your blog name on .com (or .net or .org)?
I found some very interesting Dixon family information.
The Dickson/Dixon (and other derivates) family name was first found in Scotland. Early records show Thomas Dicson, a follower of the Douglas clan, at the capture of Castle Douglas in 1307.
The ancient family motto is said to be "Fortes Fortuna Juvat", which is Latin for "Fortune Helps the Brave".
In his book The Border and Riding Clans and a Shorter History of Clan Dixon, (published by Albany, New York, 1888) B. Homer Dixon wrote:-
"In a charter from King Robert Bruce about A.D. 1306 to Thomas Dickson it [the name] occurs as Filius Ricardi (son of Richard) and the Charter is endorsed Carta Thomas fil Dick."
"Nesbit in his Heraldry (Edinburgh, 1722) says 'The Dicksons are descended from one Richard Keith, said to be a son of the family of Keith's Earls Marshalls of Scotland.' and in proof thereof carry the chief of Keith Marischal. This Richard was commonly called Dick and the 'son' was styled after him. The affix of son in the Lowlands answering to the prefix Mac in the Highlands."
Thomas Dickson himself has quite a history. He was associated in some way with William Wallace (of "Braveheart"), and he was killed by the English in 1307 in battle. Tradition states that he was slashed across the abdomen but continued to fight holding the abdominal wound closed with one hand until he finally dropped dead. He is buried in the churchyard of St. Bride of Douglas, and his marker shows him with a sword in one hand and holding his belly with the other. Robert de Brus (Bruce) had made him Castellan of Castle Douglas the year before he was killed
Wow. we carry so much history around in our own names!
So very interesting!
So... I searched The Starr Family, which is my maiden name. They actually shortened their name from a longer, Polish name, but I don't know what it was.
There was a LOT of information about the Starr Family Tree on one site. There was too much info to know for sure, though.. until I get a name.
My Grandmother came directly from Italy. Her last name was Harvey.
I have a letter she wrote me about how she came to America. I need to find it. It's in my wedding album, I think. It probably tells me what town she came from and her husband's name. My cousin lives in Italy now - er, she did... (Alycia - comment me if you read this, ok?) I know she has visited my blog before, because I get a visitor from the town she is in Italy.
My Mom's family name was Duvall and Verstraete. I'm not sure if that is spelled right.
My Dad's is Walters. Jocelyn was excited when I opened the page that dates Walters genealogy to Derbyshire, England. I think were from Germany, tho! She wants to be English way too much!
I wish I had time to do genealogy. I should just have Amanda and Jocelyn do that for history.... huh...? They learned so much when they worked on the photo albums for my grandparents. Amanda made my grandfather's WW2 album, and she knew a lot of the history already, because of our WWII study a few years back.
It is difficult to find things on searches, tho. I think I just got lucky on the Dixon site. Brielle's grandmother does genealogy classes in WA. She gave us her card when we got to meet them.
Wow... and if you want to know about someone- or yourself! - look at this site: Intelius.com
Not very comforting to know that someone can buy all that info about you, tho, huh? I did find some errors, tho. It had someone on there as a relation that is not a relation. same thing for my brother's name. It also has my 86yo Grandmother listed as age 56. So much for their great info!
Well, more searching tomorrow - or the next day... maybe... it sure would be time-consuming to do it daily!
Have a blessed day!
-Jacque
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Friday, September 14, 2007 - Hello! |
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| Grandma Starr ( Tom's Mom) maiden name was Petrelli. Guiua Petrelli (Joy Starr) |
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Friday, September 14, 2007 - Hello! |
| Posted by HomesteadingCarnival |
We are looking for some Homestead Submissions!
Please submit one by Sunday night. We would love to include your blog entry!
Thanks, The Carnival Staff!
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/HomesteadingCarnival/57544/
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Friday, September 14, 2007 - Grandma Harvey- Grandma Starr |
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| Grandma Starr ( Tom's Mom) maiden name was Petrelli. Guiua Petrelli (Joy Starr) |
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