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Jesse Weber
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USA
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 Posted - 26/08/2008 : 08:32:08
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| My family from Norway have very different names than those from England. Every time a father would have a son, that child would take their father's name and add 'sen' or 'son' to it (like Anfind Pedersen was Peder Anfindsen's son). Or, if he would have a daughter, she would take his name and add 'datter' or 'dotter' at the end of it (like Martha Guttormsdotter was Gutorm Sigurdson's daughter). Is this common throughout Norway, or was it just a family tradition? |
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eibache
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 26/08/2008 : 11:41:07
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flukerkr
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2008 : 18:17:32
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The naming practice is called patronymic. It was common to all the Scandinavian countries.
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Richard Schumacher
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2008 : 19:17:28
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You will also find similar traditions in other countries.
Russia and Scotland also have similar traditions. - suffexes or prefixes are added to the father's fisrt name to create a family identity/name.
Other countries will use the home location to identify people, such as "von" in Germany, and "le" or "de" in other countries when you go back further.
Names are always a challenge to Americans, who get fussy about spelling differences, let alone the totally new family name. You will also find the differences created by dropping the first name given at birth in documents after baptising. You see many "Johans" or "Johannes" in birth records, but can have good luck by searching later records without the first given name.
Keep an open mind and in many cases, church records give accurate dates if you distinguish between bith and christening dates. If you look for siblings, you can also find family continuity.
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 02/09/2008 : 20:10:57
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Only Iceland of the Scandinavien countries keep up this traditional naming.
In Norway its still used, but it´s very, very seldom, I have seen it used on daughters and then as a middle name in connection to the family name .
Patronymic naming:
Ole´s son became Olsen and his daughter became Olsdatter, Johns son became Johnsen and his daughter became Johnsdatter, etc.
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Edited by - Kċarto on 02/09/2008 20:25:40 |
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flukerkr
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 03/09/2008 : 19:32:39
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Just yesterday I was wondering whether Iceland was keeping up the practice. Now I have the answer to my question. I was reading an article about whales and Iceland and I noticed that the women all had names that ended with dattir.
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Norwegian Last Names
