re: #294 Ooh, look, shiny…

I should add that my Baptist preacher ancestor named his first family:

Adonijah, Heshbon, Gamaliel, Permina Colgate, Serepta, and Jesse.

I had to use an obituary to figure out who was male and who female.

Well, the first three and the last one I can figure out the origins of, although I don’t know if Heshbon would be a boy or a girl.

The Utah names seem to be a sort of combination of old-fashioned Victoriana, and odd re-spellings of things. And some unique oddities, I’ll grant. “Mormon Miracles”. How do you shorten that?

I had two girls in class one year, both named “Vernisha”, which I had never heard before. Finally figured out that it was an old-fashioned Southern feminine of Verne, respelled from ‘Vernicia’ to look more modern.