How Many Family Names Do You Have? Naming Customs and Surname Diversity

[White Swan]

I have another question for you (and thatoneton). On Familysearch I could link a branch of my family to one that had already been documented by other people and they've provided documents. I couldn't analyse them yet because there are other branches which I could also link and I'm not very good understaning old calligraphy, even more so in languages I don't speak. There's a register from 1610 of the marriage between Dionysius Laher and Anna Daukroakes from Mosbach, Baden, but doesn't her surname sound a bit Polish? I couldn't find anything about it on the internet. If it's indeed Polish is there any documented event of Polish migration to that area at that time? Does it look like any known German or Polish surname to any of you?

I've used familysearch, some say it is erroneous, but it is the largest family tree ever created and it does have a lot of documentation. It's Mormon, because they find genealogy important to baptize their ancestors retroactively, it's something they do. I don't know if this means we trust it or don't lol

[Etelfrido]

I've used familysearch, some say it is erroneous, but it is the largest family tree ever created and it does have a lot of documentation. It's Mormon, because they find genealogy important to baptize their ancestors retroactively, it's something they do. I don't know if this means we trust it or don't lol

Well, everyone can contribute and everything's to be taken with a grain of salt, but I've found entries of my ancestors there that helped me a lot because they were correct. I know it because I knew a bit of my family tree already and the entries there matched it and also because I made contact with a few registries/notary offices in my country and abroad and had success further searching about my family tree.

[Kriptc06]

I have 3, one is a patronymic, so technically a mix of iberian and slavic naming traditions

[Etelfrido]

I have 3, one is a patronymic, so technically a mix of iberian and slavic naming traditions

But is it a surname with patronymic origins that's in your family for generations or is it a patronymic only you (and maybe your siblings) have?

[Kriptc06]

But is it a surname with patronymic origins that's in your family for generations or is it a patronymic only you (and maybe your siblings) have?

no, not a surname, a straight out patronymic, It's derived from my great-grandfather's name. my grandmother lost the surname when she married my grandfather and only kept her patronymic, which she gave to my dad, that passed down to me.

ex:

Gramparents:
Olga Ivanova Kurtsheva (daughter of Ivan and Maria)
Francisco Machado de Alcantara

Father:
Augusto Ivanov de Alcantara

Me:
Criptão Silveira Ivanov de Alcantara

[thatoneton]

I have another question for you (and thatoneton). On Familysearch I could link a branch of my family to one that had already been documented by other people and they've provided documents. I couldn't analyse them yet because there are other branches which I could also link and I'm not very good understaning old calligraphy, even more so in languages I don't speak. There's a register from 1610 of the marriage between Dionysius Laher and Anna Daukroakes from Mosbach, Baden, but doesn't her surname sound a bit Polish? I couldn't find anything about it on the internet. If it's indeed Polish is there any documented event of Polish migration to that area at that time? Does it look like any known German or Polish surname to any of you?

Nothing comes to my mind.

[rothaer]

I have another question for you (and thatoneton). On Familysearch I could link a branch of my family to one that had already been documented by other people and they've provided documents. I couldn't analyse them yet because there are other branches which I could also link and I'm not very good understaning old calligraphy, even more so in languages I don't speak. There's a register from 1610 of the marriage between Dionysius Laher and Anna Daukroakes from Mosbach, Baden, but doesn't her surname sound a bit Polish? I couldn't find anything about it on the internet. If it's indeed Polish is there any documented event of Polish migration to that area at that time? Does it look like any known German or Polish surname to any of you?

It's a German name.

I read:

Dionysius Laiher, Joseph Leyhers sohn von Moßbach,
und Anna Chaspar Danckwarts seligen nachgelassen(s?)
Dochter hier zu Ölz 3ten Trin Den 24ten Juny, außgeruffen. HochZeit
gehalten zu Moßbach den 10ten July.

(Dionysius Laiher, Joseph Leyher's son from Moßbach
and Anna, deceased Caspar Danckwart's left behind
daughter here in Ölz. 3th(sunday after sunday) Trin(itatis), the 24th of June, announced. Marriage
was held in Moßbach the 10th of July.)

[rothaer]

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I corrected some of the data in my transscription.