There's a new meme going around Facebook right now. Genealogists are
listing their mother's maiden name, father's surname, maternal and
paternal grandparents' surnames and a few more generations back.
It's
a cute idea but I don't think it's wise to be providing such detail,
especially your mother's maiden name, as it is often the secret question
asked on sites where you require a password to log in.
So
I'm revising the meme to suit me and I hope others will follow suit,
either here as a comment on Olive Tree Genealogy blog, or on their own
blog.
Over the coming weeks I'll be listing my surnames starting with "A" and going through the alphabet until I reach "Z".
I'll
preface this with a caveat - most surnames are more common than you
might think, so sharing a surname doesn't mean we're related. To be
completely useful any surname list should have a geographic location and
a time period. But this is just a fun little exercise and if you spot a
name of interest, just let me know and we'll compare dates and
locations.
D SURNAMES: Damen, Dawson, De Grauw, De Groot, De Roche, De Ruine, de Toine, Deane, Deckmann, Demarest, Des Chalets, Dewes, Doust, Down, Downey, Drury, Duty
Join me - maybe we connect! Find previous surnames on Surnames A-Z
4 comments:
DEFOREST/DEFORREST, DEGRAAF, DE VOS, all in New Netherland, some b. in Netherlands
hmm . . . we may have a match on Drury. Here is the link to my D surnames. http://familyandmemories.blogspot.com/2017/12/surnames-z-d-names.html
Hi Marcy
My DRURY family was in Kent England and daughtered out with birth of Mary in 1712.
My Drury was a daughter, Dorcas, (no name for parents) born in 1705. She married a John Stovall before 1735 in Virginia.
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