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Surname Saturday: BARBER
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Surname Saturday: HOLST
The HOLST family is my adoptive family line. My paternal grandmother was adopted by Alfred Henry HOLST and his wife, Nellie May CONCIDINE. I've been able to trace Alfred's line back one more generation into Hannover, Germany.Stories and History:Ahnen...
Surname Saturday: YORK
The YORK line is my paternal grandmother's biological paternal line (she was adopted). I've been able to trace her ancestry back another four generations before her, to my 4th-great-grandfather, Jeremiah F. YORK, I.Stories and History:The YORK Famil...
Surname Saturday: CHAPLIN
CHAPLIN is my husband's maternal line. It's one of those old families that have been traced to Puritan New England and further back into Yorkshire, England.Stories and History:Ahentafel #6144 - Jeremiah CHAPLIN (ch. 1541)Ahnentafel #3072 - Ebenezer C...
Surname Saturday: VALK
The VALK line is my main maternal line. I've been able to trace this line back nine generations (not including my own) to my 7th-great-grandfather, named Geert, thanks to patronymics. VALK is a surname that appears in many countries in Western Europ...
Surname Saturday: ROBBINS
My maiden name is ROBBINS, and I have been able to trace this line definitely back seven generations (not counting my own) to two 5th-great-grandfathers, both of whom were ROBBINSes. My 4th great-grandparents were Joseph Josiah ROBBINS (1820 - 1905)...
