How many names can a person have?.....
In genealogy that could be a lot of areas that need to be explained. So lets get started. Birth records are the start of it all. It gives the name of hospital or home of where the baby was born. The babies given name, race, date of birth, city, township and state. If the baby was male or female, or twins. (Birth order of the twins.) Parents names along with the maidan name of the mother. The parents age, resident, race, occupation, and where they were born. With the mother they want to know how many children she has given birth to. Midwives have been around since time begin. My great grand mother was a midwife. And she would have her grandkids fill out the birth certificates. My mother told me that they did not always know how to spell the names and they recorded the name as they sounded. Census taker also recorded the names how they sounded, not all Census taker could spell well. So when you are searching look at all of the possibilities that the name could be spelled.
Josephine- Jossie
Mary- Marie
Henrietta- Hattie
Elizabeth- Liz
Beth- Elizabeth
Alexander- Ellie
Odie- Odee
Elaine- Ellin
Lucinda- Lucy
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