My mother’s name is [name]Kathy[/name] [name]Lynn[/name], and her parents are [name]William[/name] [name]Russell[/name] (nn [name]Bill[/name]) and [name]Linda[/name] [name]Lee[/name].
Not sure about my grandpa’s parents, but my grandma ([name]Linda[/name]) was the daughter of [name]Flossie[/name] and (I think) [name]Edward[/name]. (I’m not really sure if my great-grandma was actually named [name]Flossie[/name], or if it was just short for [name]Florence[/name]; I’ve gotten different answers depending on who I’ve asked.) [name]Flossie[/name]'s parents (my great-great-grandparents) were [name]Leo[/name] (I’m pretty sure short for [name]Leonard[/name]) and [name]Rose[/name].
My father’s name is [name]Scott[/name] [name]Edward[/name], and his mother’s name is [name]Martha[/name] [name]Rowena[/name]. I think his father’s name was [name]Frank[/name], but he wasn’t present or involved when my dad was growing up, and I never knew him. [name]Martha[/name]'s parents (my great-grandparents) were [name]William[/name] and [name]Martha[/name] (not sure of middle names). As for my great-great-grandparents, [name]William[/name]'s parents were [name]Charles[/name] and [name]Agnes[/name], and [name]Martha[/name]'s parents were [name]Albert[/name] and [name]Vina[/name] (I think short for [name]Lavina[/name], since that’s also my great-aunt’s middle name).
My step-mom’s name is [name]Sandra[/name] [name]Kay[/name] (nn [name]Sandy[/name]), and her parents are [name]Donald[/name] (nn [name]Don[/name]) and [name]Barbara[/name] [name]Jane[/name] (nn [name]Barb[/name]).
My mother-in-law is [name]Nancy[/name] [name]Lorraine[/name], and her parents are [name]Earl[/name] and Lodema (often called “Deem” by her husband).
My father-in-law is [name]Roderick[/name] [name]Lee[/name], and his parents were [name]Herbert[/name] [name]Ross[/name] (nn [name]Herb[/name]) and [name]Verena[/name] [name]Ilene[/name] (went by [name]Ilene[/name]); his step-mother was [name]Marjorie[/name] (nn [name]Marge[/name]). [name]Herbert[/name]'s parents were [name]Henry[/name] and [name]Ella[/name].
Other nifty names from the grandparent/great-grandparent/great-great-grandparent generations of our family tree:
[name]Agnes[/name] [name]Lavina[/name] and [name]Ruby[/name] [name]Lucretia[/name] (sisters of [name]Martha[/name] [name]Rowena[/name]), [name]Dorothy[/name], [name]Betty[/name], [name]Elwyn[/name] (nn [name]Windy[/name]), [name]Leland[/name] (sisters and brothers of [name]Flossie[/name]), [name]Clarence[/name] (shows up twice – brother of my great-great-grandpa [name]Albert[/name] AND brother of [name]Herbert[/name] [name]Ross[/name]), and [name]Otto[/name] and [name]Velda[/name] (another brother and a sister of [name]Herbert[/name] [name]Ross[/name]).
What I find interesting, going back through the names in these generations is that a lot of names that strongly reflect the family’s ethnicity are represented – lots of very Italian or Irish sounding names upthread, along with the heavily [name]German[/name] names of my husband’s father’s family.
For our own list of potential names, we’ve included [name]Florence[/name], [name]Ilene[/name] (probably only as a middle, maybe spelled [name]Eileen[/name]), [name]Dorothy[/name], and [name]Martha[/name] for girls, and [name]Charles[/name], [name]Henry[/name] (probably only as a middle), and [name]William[/name] (probably only as a middle) for boys.
I suppose I could research it, but have never gone beyond idle curiosity there.