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From: Mike Kosinski <>
Subject: Re: [POLAND] name questions
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:55:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <001301c1f1da$b98748a0$4b70fea9@brookhill>


Susan,

My grandmother was named Constance and was known to all her friends as
"Gusty". I'm not sure exactly how it came to be, but my father tells me
that when my grandfather had to fill out paperwork that listed his spouse's
name he didn't know how to spell "Constanzia" so he put down "Gusty".
Because of this almost all paperwork that refers to my grandmother lists her
as "Gusty". My dad says that even her social security checks used to come
to "Gusty".

HTH,
Mike Kosinski

On 5/2/02 9:10 AM, "Susan J. Green" <> wrote:

> Also, I've had a devil of a time finding the first name of my
> great-grandmother. In some places it seems to be AUGUSTA and in others,
> CONSTANCE. On a recent trip to the town where she lived in Western New York, I
> learned that she was Augusta but went by Constance. Then I learned of another
> relative who did exactly the same! Has anyone else run across this same name
> substitution? I'm wondering if Augusta and Constance have the same origins or
> are otherwise connected. Any insight?

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