Monthly Archive:: March 2018
28 Mar 2018
Occupations
By Aaron Goodwin On 28 March 2018 In Uncategorized
As far back as I’ve yet been able to discover, my ancestors were rural farmers like most of their neighbors, whether they lived in the Mid-Atlantic, the South, or the Midwest. Among that set, I’ve yet to
28 Mar 2018
Uxornecronyms: A Little-Known Naming Practice
By Aaron Goodwin On 28 March 2018 In Uncategorized
In his slim and excellent volume, The Name Is the Game: Onomatology and the Genealogist, NGS Fellow Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck coins the term uxornecronym: “the name of the first daughter born unto a second wife honoring