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To: Texan5

I wish you had as well. Years ago, there was a boy in our class named Edgar. Well, we called him Eddie and he got some teasing from time to time. UNTIL we had an oral report about one of our ancestors. He did several ancestors that had all been named Edgar... and they were all fascinating. One died in the Civil War at an early age, another one had died in the Pacific during WWII. He said that in his family, the name Edgar was used in remembrance of some of his family members that died early and didn’t have a long life. After that day, no one teased him about his name because we realized it was an honor. Personally, I like the name Azucena... it is unique.


65 posted on 02/04/2013 10:52:58 AM PST by momtothree
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To: momtothree

That name was supposedly fairly common in the area of Spain that my family came from to what was then called New Spain-the Americas. All the women I’ve known with the name Azucena (two, besides my aunt) had blonde or light strawberry hair and blue or gray eyes, like my daughter-unusual coloring for someone of mostly hispanic ancestry in North America. It wouldn’t seem to make much sense to name a darker child “white lily”.

Some people from my grandparents’ generation used to name kids the old Native American names from the Aztec and other tribes-like Xochitl etc, but those are a pronunciation nightmare for everyone.


70 posted on 02/04/2013 12:43:28 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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