Family names. Of my immediate family, parents, siblings and me,
how many others in my family tree have the same given names that we
do?
My parents – Harry & Patricia
My siblings & me – Diane, Harry, Norlaine, Virginia & John
In order to create this list I used the Search tab in my Legacy 8 program. Then I used Find, Detailed Search and entered my criteria. I didn’t use any middle names when creating my lists because I used the criteria “contains,” which will find both first and middle names.
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Please refer to my blog post about using the Legacy 8 search feature for more details. This will give you step by step details on searching.
Legacy 8 - The Search Function - What Can You Find?
Here are the lists created by searching my family names.
JOHN
HARRY
PATRICIA
VIRGINIA
DIANE
NORLAINE
My oldest sister, Norlaine, was named combining my father’s middle name, Norman and his wife, Elaine. I have never found anyone else with her given name.
By the numbers, here’s what I found.
John – 203
Harry – 20
Patricia – 7
Virginia – 6
Diane – 5
Norlaine – 1
No big surprise that John was the most numerous name.
Have you ever run this kind of report on your family names? If so, what did you find?
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Happy hunting,
My parents – Harry & Patricia
My siblings & me – Diane, Harry, Norlaine, Virginia & John
In order to create this list I used the Search tab in my Legacy 8 program. Then I used Find, Detailed Search and entered my criteria. I didn’t use any middle names when creating my lists because I used the criteria “contains,” which will find both first and middle names.
(CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT)
Please refer to my blog post about using the Legacy 8 search feature for more details. This will give you step by step details on searching.
Legacy 8 - The Search Function - What Can You Find?
Here are the lists created by searching my family names.
JOHN
HARRY
PATRICIA
VIRGINIA
DIANE
NORLAINE
My oldest sister, Norlaine, was named combining my father’s middle name, Norman and his wife, Elaine. I have never found anyone else with her given name.
By the numbers, here’s what I found.
John – 203
Harry – 20
Patricia – 7
Virginia – 6
Diane – 5
Norlaine – 1
No big surprise that John was the most numerous name.
Have you ever run this kind of report on your family names? If so, what did you find?
OTHER POSTS THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST
Name Lists - How to use them in your research
Birth records with incorrect names - What would you think?
Happy hunting,
Michigan
Girl
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Very creative approach to family data Diane. My immediate family and results are Robert (1), Betty (0), Martin (4), Denise (0) and Dean (0). William is the most common first and middle name (6) (not the same person though!) amongst my ancestors. My brother Martin perked up when he learned 4 other ancestors shared his name.
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