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From: "Amy Dunn" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Names for Grandparents
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:01:05 -0600
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My grandparents names were similar to everyone else's. Then when I get
back to my great-grandparents and back to their parents it is a whole new
story. Someone might not know that Grandma Smith or Granny Jones
might have been my great-grandmother or a 2nd great-grandmother and
not my grandmother. I know my great-grandparents could go by
Grandma or Grandpa Smith like my other ancestors.

Confusing yeah I know when you have call each of the wives by the maiden
names and not their married names except up to your great-grandparents.
I did chance the surnames, but as a general rule this is how we refer to my
ancestors names in my family in Western Kentucky.

Any one else had this tradition. It can get interesting.

Amy Dunn



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [TGF] Names for Grandparents


> At 02:44 AM 2/23/2008, you wrote:
>>Well, I was sitting here just a'ponderin' whether or not this was
>>more a southern thang or not. Could you please tell me the
>>grandparent nicknames used in your families and where your people
>>are from--I'd like to see if there is a pattern, and, if so, what it
>>might be. Maybe I'm just having a hard time seeing somebody from
>>Rhode Island calling their grandfather PeePaw . . . but one never
>>knows, do one?
>
> Well, it's not quite PeePaw but close and definitely not
> Southern. Having grown up in a NYC suburb in NJ, I called my
> grandmother MeeMa (not Maw) and my grandfather PeePa. I think it
> must have derived from a toddler's attempt at Grandma and Grandpa. My
> sister also called them that. On the other hand, I was just Grandma
> to mine (except at times to my grandson who will call me G-ma). My
> sister some how got to be Didi (not even close to her given name of
> Val) and her husband is Papa.
>
> Having a husband from Mississippi I've heard many PaPaws (not sure of
> the spelling but the Pa is pronounced similar to the baa as in the
> sound a sheep makes not like the Pa in Grandpa).
>
> Pam

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