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It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Middle Name Pride Day Today’s name celebration requires honesty and boldness. Tell three people who don’t already know it, what your middle name is. Instead, I’ll share it with all my readers…it’s Marie.

This is one of the oldest memorial cards that I have.  And for the longest time, I couldn’t place her in the family.  When I made the discovery about Tessie Karas (post 1, post 2, post 3) being a Cahill, I also figured out that this card was for her mother, Anna M GLYNN Cahill.

It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Nametag Day Celebrate your name by wearing it proudly!  (Not necessarily suggested for unsupervised children.) So here’s my virtual nametag…

It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Learn What Your Name Means Day There are many online sites with a names/naming theme (utilize a search engine such as Google to find them). I found various meanings for my name, all of which suit me just fine:  soft-haired, youthful, downy, and vivacious.

It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Unique Names Day This is the day for all people to appreciate friends, acquaintances and loved ones who have a unique name.  Let’s acknowledge them for going through life without seeing their name on things such as ready-made key chains, etc.

It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Fun Facts Day Celebrate names today by finding fun facts about names. According to Behind the Name, Julie is a French form of Julia.  In French, it’s pronounced zhoo-LEE, while in English it is pronounced JOO-lee. “Julie Don’t Live Here” is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra. Ranked #302 on the Social Security Administration list for babies born in 2007.  In the year I was born (1977) it was […]

It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Namesake Day Today is for thinking about where you got your name and if you were named after a particular person, place, etc. Also, to identify (e.g., via a search engine such as Google) people with the same name as yours, if any. I was named after a character on Days of Our Lives, Julie Williams, played by Susan Seaforth-Hayes.  No one else in my family has my name, which […]

This orphan photo is unidentified. It was photographed by Z. Roberts of Roberts & Sumner’s Champion Gallery in Northfield, Minnesota.