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Skriven 2014-12-01 16:01:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Sunday dinners
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-28-14  20:54 <=-

 NB>> Not too hard with the ones one sees all the time, or at least on a
 NB>> regular basis...  :)   Names carried down can confuse the issue, of
 NB>> course...  :)  Bad enough when the same name is used in various
 NB>> families in the same generation...  :)

 RH> I know my first name has been used for a first cousin's middle name,
 RH> 1st cousin once removed as part of her first name, me, and it's
 RH> Deborah's middle name. Dad's only sister (mom to cousin, grandmother to
 RH> 1st cousin removed) had it as a first name. My brother Bill was named
 RH> for his grandfathers but it's also the name of my dad's older brother.
 RH> Don has a different middle name but first name was for dad's younger
 RH> brother. Yes, it is fun figuring out where the name came from, who has
 RH> it and what relationships to others who have the same name.
 
Most of the names of my siblings came down from previous generations,
one way or another... And in turn, they've named their kids using the
same family names, sometimes for other reasons than being for the one
already carrying the name.  We have multiple Robs and Robins and
Lydia/Lidias and Johns and Rebekahs and Richards, and even more
duplication in middle (not used) names... My sister Lydia was partly
named for our great-grandmother, and I think she got that family's
silver flatware...   :)

 RH>> And a big pot of chowder both times as I recall. My younger brother is
 RH>> supposed to, at some time, go out to WI to get the family chowder pot.
 NB>> No one in that branch of the family is interested in keeping it...?

 RH> They're daughtered out--one cousin not married; sister was married,
 RH> now divorced and final sister broke her engagement to long time
 RH> fiancee--so far. Things could change but I'm not too sure at this
 RH> point. 

So less interest perhaps in keeping family traditions/heirlooms...

 RH>> Don't know if he'll ever make any, Mom's copy of the recipe is
 RH>> somewhere in the house but we don't know where.
 NB>> If it's still in the house, it'll turn up eventually...  :)  

 RH> Who knows at this point--it may have gotten tossed out inadvertantly
 RH> or when somebody was going thru a pile of books/papers. It would be
 RH> nice if it did, but I'm not too optimistic at this point.

You never know.  :)

 NB>> And, maybe, when Don goes to pick up the pot, he can ask for a
 NB>> copy of their copy of the recipe..   :)

 RH> Yes, and we'll get it from him, put it into electronic format.

And then you'll have it, too... and be a source to retrieve it from,
should it go missing (again)...   :)

ttyl        neb

... Inspiration is sometimes another name for desperation.

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