I started my genealogy research after we named our
last child.  But recently I told my wife, if I had
known the names of my great---grandparents, uncles,
and aunts, I would have named our children after them.
 She saw my list, and told me "No, Way!"  In that
case, I would of just given their middle names, like
or not, since I usually gave her first choice of
picking the first names.

I still think our early ancestor's names were
beautiful.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California



--- elviraz <elviraz@...> wrote:

> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Emilie Garcia 
>   To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:27 AM
>   Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Odd names WAS
> 
> 
>   No, Alberto, our ancestor's names were not unusual
> in their time and place, but a name like Gorgonia
> [Garcia],
> 
>   ---------------------------I do not see why it
> would sound awful: It is from St. Gorgonia, one of
> the early Christian saints.   
> 
>    my father's mother, sounds so awful to us now,
> especially those of us raised here in the US. 
> 
>   --------------------------that's because they lack
>  the knowledge of  early Christian Greek saints.
> 
>    Refugio sounds ugly also, 
> 
>   -------------------------Since when has refuge
> from anything been ugly??
> 
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: Alberto Duarte 
>     To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com 
>     Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:50 PM
>     Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Odd names WAS
> 
> 
>     Hey, there is nothing wrong with our old Spanish
>     names.  My great-----grandaunt's name was Maria
>     Guadalupe Leogarda De La Cruz Pena Morales,
> 1797,
>     Valle De Allende, Chihuahua,Mexico. 
> 
>     They were long but beautiful.
> 
>     Alberto Duarte Prieto
>     Santa Maria, California
> 
>     --- Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>
> wrote:
> 
>     > Marge and Emilie,
>     >    
>     >   Alicia must be a very new name because in
> all my
>     > research I have not once found this name
> either in
>     > my ancestors or any other records. I guess we
> are
>     > modern women hence the new variant of a name.
> I
>     > guess that's also why I am not saintly, no
>     > precedents in my namesake.
>     >    
>     >   Alicia, a saint in waiting or in the
>     > making............hope is everlasting, (sigh,
> sigh).
>     > 
>     > Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@...>
> wrote:
>     >   That's what I thought, too, Em! BTW, my
> middle
>     > name is Alicia...my 
>     > folks said it was after a family friend but I
> don't
>     > remember ever 
>     > meeting her. My first name is after my Scots
>     > mother's sister but in 
>     > Spanish. I've since discovered that my aunt
> was
>     > named after her 
>     > grandmother, who was named after her own
>     > grandmother. Had I known that 
>     > I would have named one of my own daughters a
> variant
>     > of it. Marge, who 
>     > is Shinju in Japanese.:)
>     > 
>     > On Dec 21, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Emilie Garcia
> wrote:
>     > 
>     > > Well, Alicia, I have a sister, my only
> sibling,
>     > who is named Alicia 
>     > > Emma.  I will have to tell her she should
> have a
>     > saint's name since 
>     > > she has a pagan name.  Our parents had
> saint's
>     > names:Â  Luisa and 
>     > > Guadalupe.  I wonder where they got the
> name
>     > Alicia.  There is no one 
>     > > in the family with that name.  I know that
> I was
>     > named after my 
>     > > mother's mother, Emilia.  My middle name is
>     > Christina---can't get any 
>     > > saintlier than that.  I was born almost on
>     > Easter, maybe that is why 
>     > > the name Christina. 
>     > > Â 
>     > > Marge, most of the names you mention sound
> like
>     > they came from the 
>     > > classic Greek or Roman---pagan?
>     > > Â 
>     > > Emilie Garcia
>     > > Port Orchard, WA ---
>     > >> ----- Original Message -----
>     > >> From: Alicia Carrillo
>     > >> To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
>     > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:15 PM
>     > >> Subject: [ranchos] Re: Odd names WAS
>     > >>
>     > >> Marge,
>     > >> Â 
>     > >> My dad was named Restituto and he went to
> court
>     > to legally change his 
>     > >> name to Jose. Many people called him
> ''Tuto'' for
>     > short but he hated 
>     > >> it.
>     > >> Â 
>     > >> Â And yes I am glad my mom named me Alicia
> and
>     > not Juana because Juana 
>     > >> was my saint day and that's the name the
> priest
>     > told my mother she 
>     > >> should name me. He told her Alicia was a
> pagan
>     > name and it had to be 
>     > >> a saint's name. Three cheers for mom who
> stuck to
>     > her guns.
>     > >> Â 
>     > >> Alicia Avelar de Carrillo
>     > >> San Jose, Ca
>     > >>
>     > >> Margarita Vallazza wrote:
>     > >>> Aren't you glad to not be named Reducindo
> or
>     > Reducinda?  One of my
>     > >>> ancestors is named Narciso, another
> Prudencio,
>     > another Petronilo, and
>     > >>> another Zenobio...what names!!!!  Marge:)
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