Reposted and updated from 2009  The  first week of March  is  Celebrate your Name Week Celebrate Your Name Week is a holiday created in ...

Found this in a drafts folder. I wrote this a couple years ago to post, but I never did. Nothing's changed. We’ve placed a relative in...

Expanded upon from a 2008 post One aspect of Kabbalah, a Jewish form of mysticism, is the interplay between numbers and letters. "Ka...

My eighth great grandfather's first name appears on historical documents as Myndert, Meyndert, and Mindert. His surname appears as both ...

The Jewish Publication Society Blog suggests the Five Best Biblical Names . O rginality. It’s one of the few things almost everyone wants. ...

Neil Armstrong lives nearby Neil Armstrong, but isn't Neil Armstrong, or at least, isn't that Neil Armstrong. Apparently some people...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. My grandfather, Martin Deutsch, wo...

The first week of March is Celebrate your Name Week Celebrate Your Name Week is a holiday created in 1997 by American amateur onomatologist...

Olive Tree Genealogy raises the topic of nicknames that aren't derived from given names - how we can't assume "Uncle Charlie...

Naming restrictions in Sweden have been relaxed . While religious names [Gud, Allah, Fan (Devil)] are still forbidden, as are gender-based ...