<div>Carolyn & Jay,</div> <div> </div> <div>My experience has been to *question* whether he had a middle name. When I was a manuscript reader for EE, I had a little discussion with a special someone about whether including something about this was worthy of being in the book. Oh, yes indeedy! ESM taught me many, many things--some of which I still remember. One of them is to *not* assume that this didn't occur with some frequency in other times, as well as our own.</div> <div> </div> <div>One of the tools that I have used during the past few months to track a family is to do due diligence to the supposed middle names of the subject's children. These unproven middle names match perfectly with the children's middle initials that were consistently used on documents. I always search for those other names, especially in this particular case because they do refer to allied or collateral families.</div> <div> </div> <div>This is both sides of the coin.</div> <div> </div> <div>Rondina<br clear="all">________________________<br>Rondina P. Muncy<br>Ancestral Analysis<br>2960 Trail Lake Drive<br>Grapevine, Texas 76051<br>817.481.5902<br><a href="mailto:rondina.muncy@gmail.com">rondina.muncy@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.ancestralanalysis.com">www.ancestralanalysis.com</a><br><br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Carolyn Earle Billingsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cebillingsley@earthlink.net">cebillingsley@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"> <div text="#666600" bgcolor="#ffffff">Jay, in my experience, which is, of course, not all inclusive, my opinion is that he did, indeed, HAVE a middle name, which may even have been a female forebearer's surname. <br> <br>He may also have used the initial to differentiate himself from another person with his first name. <br><br>But I do not think _all_ he had was an initial for a middle name, although he used it that way.<br><br>I'd also like to know what his _first_ name was, as some given names are paired together--such as William Asbury, Martin Luther, George Washington, Finish Leech, Oliver Hazard Perry, Marcus Aurelius, etc. Regards, Carolyn<br> <br>Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D.<br>Member APG, Lone Star Chapter<br><a href="http://www.cebillingsley.net/" target="_blank">www.cebillingsley.net</a><br><br><a href="mailto:jfonkert@aol.com" target="_blank">jfonkert@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <div>Good morning to all. I am working on a man who lived in Kentucky from about 1795-1825, probably born about 1777. Throughout this Kentucky period, he was consistently known with the middle initial "C." A full middle name is never spelled out. Can anyone tell me, is it likely that "C." stood for a middle given name? Or might it have just been an initial?</div> <div> </div> <div> <div><font lang="2" size="2" face="Arial">Jay Fonkert, CG<br><a href="http://fourgenerationsgenealogy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"></a></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> APG Public Mailing List<br><a href="http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/" target="_blank">http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>