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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 196874" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>LOL about "Junebug"! Where I work we used to have a "Squirrel", a "Rabbit" and a "Moose"! A lot of people still don't know their real names! Squirrel died a few years back, Rabbit retired but works part time now, and Moose is still there! We had two other guys, "Petie" and "Jinx" who both had the same last name, but those first name were both nicknames and their real names were really hard to keep track of.</p><p> </p><p>This still just cracks me up! I mentioned a while back on another post about the very distant cousin who researched my paternal grandmothers family way back to the early 1800's and then made up the book with all the family trees and pictures. You have to laugh at the introduction where he talks about how difficult it was to research those early years in Germany! Apparently, back then, families had lots of kids and thought nothing about giving more than one child the same name! Started out with one ancestor named "Gerhard" back in the early 1800's. He married and had a whole herd of kids and named <u>two</u> of his sons "Gerhard"! The older brother "Gerhard" grew up, married and had several children, including a son that he also named "Gerhard" <span style="font-size: 9px">(we're in to the third generation now if you're still following...)</span> - then he died while his children (including little Gerhard) were young. Back in those days in Germany it was the custom that if a brother died and left a young family, and if there was an unmarried younger brother in the family, the younger one was expected to marry his brothers widow, take care of his family and raise his children. So the younger brother "Gerhard" married his older brother "Gerhard's" grieving widow and she had several more children by the younger one, including a son that they named (Guess!!) ... "Gerhard"! These youngest two "Gerhards" (who were also cousins as well as half-brothers!) were children when the parents came to the US right after the Civil War ... one of them became my great-grandfather, but darned if I can figure out which one! And the men in the family who <em>weren't</em> named "Gerhard"? Most of them were named "Henry"! I SWEAR! I <u>couldn't</u> make this stuff up!</p><p> </p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 196874, member: 1883"] LOL about "Junebug"! Where I work we used to have a "Squirrel", a "Rabbit" and a "Moose"! A lot of people still don't know their real names! Squirrel died a few years back, Rabbit retired but works part time now, and Moose is still there! We had two other guys, "Petie" and "Jinx" who both had the same last name, but those first name were both nicknames and their real names were really hard to keep track of. This still just cracks me up! I mentioned a while back on another post about the very distant cousin who researched my paternal grandmothers family way back to the early 1800's and then made up the book with all the family trees and pictures. You have to laugh at the introduction where he talks about how difficult it was to research those early years in Germany! Apparently, back then, families had lots of kids and thought nothing about giving more than one child the same name! Started out with one ancestor named "Gerhard" back in the early 1800's. He married and had a whole herd of kids and named [U]two[/U] of his sons "Gerhard"! The older brother "Gerhard" grew up, married and had several children, including a son that he also named "Gerhard" [SIZE=1](we're in to the third generation now if you're still following...)[/SIZE] - then he died while his children (including little Gerhard) were young. Back in those days in Germany it was the custom that if a brother died and left a young family, and if there was an unmarried younger brother in the family, the younger one was expected to marry his brothers widow, take care of his family and raise his children. So the younger brother "Gerhard" married his older brother "Gerhard's" grieving widow and she had several more children by the younger one, including a son that they named (Guess!!) ... "Gerhard"! These youngest two "Gerhards" (who were also cousins as well as half-brothers!) were children when the parents came to the US right after the Civil War ... one of them became my great-grandfather, but darned if I can figure out which one! And the men in the family who [I]weren't[/I] named "Gerhard"? Most of them were named "Henry"! I SWEAR! I [U]couldn't[/U] make this stuff up! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: [/QUOTE]
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