From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 07/05/2020 13:32, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > People often don't know what even their close relatives are really   
   > called. When I was born my mother was going to call me John Athelstan,   
   > but decided on Athelstan John so that I wouldn't have the same initials   
   > as my aunt, who my mother thought was called Joyce Althea. In fact she   
   > was called Althea Joyce, so the "correction" created the very problem my   
   > mother wanted to avoid. She could of course have consulted my father,   
   > but this was wartime and he was probably at sea at the time   
      
   By that token, some parents don't even know what their children are   
   called!  I have several people in my tree who were registered and/or   
   baptised as First Middle and then appear in Censuses etc as Middle   
   First.  Sometimes the change is made between Birth Registration and Baptism.   
      
      
   Swerving slightly, but on the subject of names, I do wish FindMyPast   
   understood the difference between "exact" and "variation."  If I search,   
     for example for name variants of Harriet Ursula, I am happy to accept   
   Harriet on its own or even Ursula.  If I *do not* opt for name variants   
   then I want exactly what I asked for, which was Harriet Ursula, not   
   either name on its own.  Harrumph!   
      
   --   
   Jenny M Benson   
   Wrexham, UK   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)