RE: [nscumber] Re: Effie

[harrietmccready <nscumber@yahoogroups.com>]

Indeed. Any my father's first name was Conrad, but was always known as Laurie
(Yorke) … he did not know his real first name until he applied for a birth
certificate so he could enlist in the army for World War II.  Si I put him in
my data base as Laurie Conrad … probably should change that.



 **From:** .com <.com>  
**Sent:** June-04-20 3:22 PM  
 **To:** .com  
 **Subject:** RE: [nscumber] Re: Effie





Hi Harriet -



Exactly so. It can be confusing at certain points when looking through records
and you can't be sure if the person you're searching for was really Harry, as
found, or truly Henry, as given. I'm thinking of Charlotte/Lottie,
Harriet/Hattie, Winnifred/Winnie, William/Bill, Richard/Rick and more. There
are some that were more unusual but don't come to mind at the moment. Also -
my pet peeve - first and second names switched around at random. I spent
several years looking for someone by their first name and hit brick wall after
brick wall until I mentioned her middle name and I couldn't believe how many
lights clicked on in people's memories. My grandfather, Norman Morton Durant
(known to all as 'Mott' - the Maine pronunciation of Mort) spent his life
until sixteen believing his first name was James. He appears in the old school
records as J. Morton Durant. That ended when he applied for a passport and
Norman popped up.



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