I don’t know my great grandparents’ names. My grandparents were [name]August[/name] [name]Adolph[/name] and [name]Laura[/name] [name]May[/name] and [name]Casper[/name] [name]Frederick[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Anna[/name].
Maternal grandfather: [name]Frank[/name]
Maternal grandmother: [name]Martha[/name] [name]Jane[/name]
(they divorced and got remarried, I only know my step-grandfather [name]Phillip[/name] [name]Conrad[/name])
Paternal grandfather: [name]Charles[/name] [name]Arthur[/name]
His parents: Charles & Erma
Paternal grandmother: [name]Ramona[/name] [name]Lee[/name]
Her parents: Ralph & Vona
Other relatives, not sure of relation to me, I’m just taking the names from a family album:
[name]Eugene[/name] ([name]Gene[/name]), [name]Leonard[/name] ([name]Red[/name]), [name]Walter[/name] (Boots), [name]Gerald[/name] ([name]Sonny[/name]), [name]Ronald[/name] ([name]Ron[/name]), [name]Marilyn[/name], [name]Donna[/name], [name]Juanita[/name] ([name]Nita[/name]), [name]June[/name]
Maternal great grandparents:
[name]John[/name] [name]Henry[/name] and [name]Augusta[/name] [name]Maria[/name] [name]Dora[/name]
[name]William[/name] [name]Henry[/name] and [name]Ernestine[/name] [name]Christiana[/name]
Paternal great grandparents:
[name]Henry[/name] [name]Samuel[/name] and [name]Alice[/name] [name]Mathilde[/name]
[name]Charles[/name] [name]Philipp[/name] and [name]Emelie[/name]
Alright, these recent posts on grandparents/great grandparents have got me on a quest to find out more. 2 days ago, I only knew the name of one great grandparent. Now, I know a bit more thanks to ancestry.com
Maternal grandparents: [name]Eva[/name] [name]Katherine[/name] (love) and [name]James[/name] [name]Donald[/name].
Paternal grandparents: [name]Earnest[/name] and [name]Irene[/name].
My paternal grandmother who recently passed didn’t have a middle name. If I were to name a baby after her I would use her maiden name, [name]Hannah[/name].
Maternal grandparents: [name]Johann[/name] “[name]Hans[/name]” and [name]Veronika[/name] “Vroni”. Her parents were named [name]Emil[/name] and [name]Marie[/name], I don’t know about my granddad’s.
Paternal grandparents: [name]Georg[/name] and [name]Mathilde[/name]. His parents were [name]Georg[/name] and [name]Maria[/name], hers [name]Simon[/name] and … I’m not sure, but I think she was yet another [name]Maria[/name] - after all, we’re talking about small villages in a very Catholic part of Germany.
I love genealogy and recently started documenting my family. Some of the names that were used were pretty awesome…though some a definitely cringe-worthy and I can see why they fell out of use!
Maternal grandparents:
[name]Miriam[/name] [name]Ruth[/name] (goes by [name]Ruth[/name])
[name]Clarence[/name] [name]Alton[/name] (goes by [name]Alton[/name])
Paternal grandparents:
[name]Bonnie[/name] [name]Louis[/name] (went by B.L. I have no clue why his parents chose [name]Bonnie[/name] for his name…)
[name]Alma[/name] [name]Mae[/name] (went by [name]Alma[/name])
I also know [name]Alma[/name]‘s parents’ names (so my great grandparents):
Flavious
[name]Sadie[/name]
[name]Ruth[/name]‘s parents’ names (my great-grandparents):
[name]John[/name]
[name]Maddie[/name] (not short for anything)