My comments are interspersed below. DR
On May 6, 9:33 pm, "John Foster" <ret...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Since before the last century, historians have standardized given> names
to avoid utter confusion.
>
> The last century is this one. Was a vote taken in 2001? I must have
missed
> it. If it was the previous century, what happened in 1901?
Before the last century is before 1900.
> Confusion does not seem to have been reduced, since I often see pages
and
> pages of debate about the same person here. Names with spellings used at
the
> time would seem to indicate LESS confusion since some could be
eliminated
> from thousands of names spelled exactly the same way. Must I blame
> historians for the sheer number of John Smiths?
Actually there is much LESS confusion in the literature due to the
standardization naming convention which I mentioned. As I said, I
didn't invent the convention, but I do agree with it.
> Were there no countries earlier in the British Isles, since we now must
use
> Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and The Republic of Ireland to match
the
> modern forms of ancient names? (sorry ... feeling grumpy today)
Yes, you certainly are a grumpy puss today, aren't you?.
> Likewise the Latin forms of these
>
> > names are avoided by historians, such as Henricus, Richardus,
> > Robertus, Gullielmus. Ditto Matilda, Cecilia, Maria, Elizabetha,
> > Isabella, Agneta, etc..
>
> Poor Matilda Ditto --- twice avoided --- the first when the written out
> "Ditto" referred to some previous name in a passenger list, now lost.
> Historians have reduced any number of surnames to merely
"Ditto".http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname=dit...
> Her parents appear to be Henry Ditto and Nancy Ann Bartlett.
Now you're being silly. But at least you get my point, which is which
I wanted.
> > Best always, Douglas Richardson, a descendant of the Holand family
>
> Why not Holland then, the modern form of the surname?
The English surname is spelled Holand, not Holland. Holland is the
county/country. Holand is the English family.
DR
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