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 would love to figure out where the Forrest name originated.
As always -
Cause ...
You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
This is why I search -
Links:
Amy Johnson Crow, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge
https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/
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