Maybe we are related, what was your maiden name or your mama's?

[AHappychick]

this is a fun thread but couldnt it be dangerous I mean they always ask me my mothers madian name when checking an account. It is often used as a password for many companies or a way to identify if you are speaking to the right person.

I really am not trying to be a pain or a downer just wanted to mention it.

Maybe someone could correct me

 

[buff_the_rooster]

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Like the stationary company or the drink?

You didn't have any Leonard's in RI did you? His fathers family were all from Cranston, RI they worked in the mills there.

My mother in laws maiden name is Gorzinski.

My Mead came from Ireland (like the drink) married into native Americans in my area and a line that branches off from mine started the mead paper company. There was some sort of family fued and the name spelling went several ways. Mead/Meads/Meades/Meade/Metz etc...

Most of our Leonards was from PA but another line went off to CT so some may have went RI way but none in my main line.
My grandmother was a Leonard but said her great grandfather had an Irish name, Id have to ask my father if he knows what the name was before Leonard.
Our Leonards were mostly lumberjacks & Sawyers.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Um, my dad was from Wagoner, OK and his name is Rodriguez. My mom was from Tulsa, OK and her maiden name was Ohler.

 

[buff_the_rooster]

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VERY true, but after doing research on my family history I stopped using maiden names as passwords, I just tell them I would like to use something else and they let me!
It is actually very easy to find out Maiden names now with all the census records, people searches and other records the we help the goverment supply.
So it depends on how you feel about the issue. But VERY good point to take into consideration!

 

[mom'sfolly]

My names are:
Wilson (no one is related to me by this one, there is a long line of only children, so its me, my sibs and our children)
Fullen-maternal maiden name, probably Irish
Julian- gma's maiden name, French
Davis (Davies)-paternal grandma maiden name-Cardiff, Wales
Christofferson- Budo, Norway

Farther back are the last names of
Anderson- Danish, large numbers of descendants in Utah
Branstetter- German, family start in the US around 1771 in North Carolina, spread to Kentucky and Tennessee and then on to Missouri

 

[Elite Silkies]

Me- Westmoreland
Mom - Chisum
Grandmother - Brewer

 

[PeepsInc]

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Chisum as in the chisum trail? Longest cattle drive in history! Thats a cool name.

 

[miss_thenorth]

maiden--Okkema
mom' maiden--Hoekstra
maternal grandmother- Hoekstra
paternal granmother-Van Der Honing.

My Grandma was a Hoekstra and she married a Hoekstra-- no relation

In fact, there are 4 generations of Hoekstra's marrying Hoekstra's --All with no relation to each other. Apparently it must have been a common name in Friesland.

All names are Dutch. All dutch names ending in and "A" are Friesian names. My parents were both Friesian. They both came over after the war--mom in '47, dad in '49.

 

[purr]

my maiden name is Westgate
my mom's maiden name is Clark
someone researched the Clark side and traced it to coming over and landing in RI in the 1640's
And my greatgrandfater was half blood sioux
I would like to get that DNA test done and find out how much.I know I am some Native American cause I was born with a birthmark called a mongolian spot.
My maternal grandmother was a jones closely related to the Borden's.yup Lizzie was a cousin
And my great grandparents are buried next to Lizzies parents in Fall River.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

M Grandfather: Konig (Austria/Hungary)
M Grandmother: Borsos (Czech)
P Grandmother: Timko (Ukraine)
P Grandfather: Bokisa (Ukraine) - when they came here, some of the names were changed from the original Bakaysa to Bokaysa or like mine, Bokisa. Some of my relatives still in PA kept the original.

I used to love hearing grandma tell the story of when they came here; I believe she was about 13). Wish I would have recorded her