My Favourite Name ~ My Own

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025: Week 26 (FAVOURITE NAME)

This is week 7 of my blogging style switch

For the next several weeks I will post a photo and a brief description. 

This new style of posting is due to CMC Arthroplasty surgery on my left thumb. 

I will continue with this style until my thumb has sufficiently recovered.

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My parents named me:

As a child I was Debbie - with a cute little heart over the i.

In my grade 7 class there was three of us named Debbie.

I seriously considering changing my name.

As an adult I chose:

I would like to think this is me:

My favourite name is my own.

When your own name is one of your favourites!!! 

This is why I search - 

Cause ... 

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/

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Favourite Name ~ I Don't Think I Have One

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021: Week 31 (FAVOURITE NAME)

I am not very good at choosing favourites.

Everytime I'm asked for a favourite I struggle with how to choose just one.

My favourite depends on so many factors that change constantly.

I couldn't choose just one favourite in any category. 

Favourite Food - depends on the moment. 

Favourite Colour - depends on what it's for

Favourite activity - depends on the mood

Favourite travel destination - depends on the season

ON & ON it goes...

Sometimes when I am asked for my favourite I choose whatever random one comes to mind first.

Later I wonder if folks think my answer was strange, and then I remember no one actually cares!!!

How exactly should I write this week's blog?

I could talk about my least favourite name. I thought I could choose just one because of the generation after generation of the same name, but then I realized I don't dislike the name - just the naming pattern. 

I could list a whole bunch of names I like, but then that wouldn't focus on an ancestor for week 31 of 52.


What to do?

I decided to write about a person in my tree with a cool name.

My 7th great grandmother's name leapt off the computer screen as I was scanning for who to write about. I realized that I like how the name looks in print, and the flow of the name.  

Agness Forrest

BIRTH ABT. 1711 • East Lothian, Scotland

DEATH Unknown

Agness is my 7th great grandmother through my father's maternal line. She married my 7th great grandfather, James Richardson,  on the 11th of June 1731. 

I further connected with this 7th great grandmother because my husband & I were also married on June 11th. 

I haven't yet figured out who Agness's parents were.
I would love to figure out where the Forrest name originated. 

I am pretty sure Agness was a very interesting person. 

She is just waiting for me to tell her story.



As always - 

My work here is not yet done!!!

Cause ... 




You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!

This is why I search - 

***Any errors are my own. Please send me any updates or corrections via the comments at the bottom of this blog post***

Links:

Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/

If you reference or use my blog posts in any way please

include a link to the specific blog and

credit http://somehowrelated.blogspot.com/

My blogs are ©Deborah Buchner, 2014 forward.

All rights reserved.

Please & Thank you!

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