Comments on: What’s in a name? http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/ Artist Writer Curious Dreamer Thu, 17 May 2012 09:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Katherine Courtney http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1813 Katherine Courtney Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:31:02 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1813 Thanks for the use of the poem, Jean. Jean, Jools and Elinor, My mother's family is amazed that my cousin is "found". When they got together they always wondered about her. She left Sunday to head for Alaska again, but to visit this time instead of work. She loves it there. Thanks for the use of the poem, Jean.

Jean, Jools and Elinor, My mother’s family is amazed that my cousin is “found”. When they got together they always wondered about her.
She left Sunday to head for Alaska again, but to visit this time instead of work. She loves it there.

]]> By: Elinor McCartney http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Elinor McCartney Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:06:43 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1763 Internet finds ...my son Carson M. found another Carson McCartney on a members list of Adelaide cricket club .How wierd is that ? And yes Katherine that is a very romantic ? story and the poem does seem to have been written for it Internet finds …my son Carson M. found another Carson McCartney on a members list of Adelaide cricket club .How wierd is that ?

And yes Katherine that is a very romantic ? story and the poem does seem to have been written for it

]]> By: Garden Jools http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 Garden Jools Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:12:23 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1761 Wow...Katherine, that IS a beautiful story! Jean......that poem strikes a very deep chord with me as well. Wow…Katherine, that IS a beautiful story!
Jean……that poem strikes a very deep chord with me as well.

]]> By: Jean Burman http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 Jean Burman Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:31:26 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1759 Katherine... it's anonymously penned so it isn't mine to give... but it's out there in the public domain with many differing versions... so I'm sure it would be more than okay for you to send it to your cousin. I'm really pleased you like it... the words are very beautiful aren't they? :-) Katherine… it’s anonymously penned so it isn’t mine to give… but it’s out there in the public domain with many differing versions… so I’m sure it would be more than okay for you to send it to your cousin. I’m really pleased you like it… the words are very beautiful aren’t they? :-)

]]> By: Katherine Courtney http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1758 Katherine Courtney Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:50:33 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1758 What a lovely poem. Do you mind if I copy it and send it to my cousin? The phrase about dancing fits her. She no longer has any living relatives on her mother's side of the family, but has 4 children. While she was here I made copies of all of the photos we had of her father as a child. We have become more like sisters. She loves to travel and contra dance. As a retired nurse she takes 3 to 6 month contracts to work in Alaska and New Zealand, often in remote areas that need medical help. Alaska, in their summer months and New Zealand in theirs. Her son found our family by searching on the internet. So she went searching for roots and found me! LOL What a lovely poem. Do you mind if I copy it and send it to my cousin? The phrase about dancing fits her. She no longer has any living relatives on her mother’s side of the family, but has 4 children. While she was here I made copies of all of the photos we had of her father as a child. We have become more like sisters. She loves to travel and contra dance. As a retired nurse she takes 3 to 6 month contracts to work in Alaska and New Zealand, often in remote areas that need medical help. Alaska, in their summer months and New Zealand in theirs. Her son found our family by searching on the internet.

So she went searching for roots and found me! LOL

]]> By: Elinor McCartney http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Elinor McCartney Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:12:51 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1757 Amen to that . Amen to that .

]]> By: Jean Burman http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1754 Jean Burman Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:19:57 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1754 How wonderful for you Katherine... (and no doubt for her as well!) Your story reminds me of this poem Some People come into our lives and quickly go some move our souls to dance they awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon they stay in our hearts for awhile leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. [Anonymous] How wonderful for you Katherine… (and no doubt for her as well!) Your story reminds me of this poem

Some People come into our lives and quickly go
some move our souls to dance
they awaken us to new understanding
with the passing whisper of their wisdom

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon
they stay in our hearts for awhile
leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never, ever the same.

[Anonymous]

]]> By: Katherine Courtney http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1753 Katherine Courtney Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:34:03 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1753 Jean, I suppose if I were in Sweden and spoke the language I could trace the family roots. Jools, my name is rare, but I certainly am not a precious gem!!!!!!!!! I wish...... LOL But you two have sparked a little interest in this so when I have some extra time may look into it. I have friends that spend a lot of time on doing this type of searching for roots. I am just happy to know the little that I do about my grandparents. I had a long lost cousin look me up a couple of years ago. Her father was a younger brother of my mother and had been killed in a fighter plane crash in Africa during WWII 20 days before she was born. Her mother remarried and did not keep in touch with our family. Her mother is now in a nursing home so she decided to try to find her father's family. She visited me for a week 2 years ago (she lives in Texas) and I pulled out all of the family photos and records that I have. We are now in touch frequently and she even came here to help take care of me when I had my back surgery this fall as she is a nurse. She looks just like my grandmother.......the only member of the family that does. It was like seeing my grandmother alive again. Jean, I suppose if I were in Sweden and spoke the language I could trace the family roots. Jools, my name is rare, but I certainly am not a precious gem!!!!!!!!! I wish…… LOL But you two have sparked a little interest in this so when I have some extra time may look into it. I have friends that spend a lot of time on doing this type of searching for roots. I am just happy to know the little that I do about my grandparents.
I had a long lost cousin look me up a couple of years ago. Her father was a younger brother of my mother and had been killed in a fighter plane crash in Africa during WWII 20 days before she was born. Her mother remarried and did not keep in touch with our family. Her mother is now in a nursing home so she decided to try to find her father’s family. She visited me for a week 2 years ago (she lives in Texas) and I pulled out all of the family photos and records that I have. We are now in touch frequently and she even came here to help take care of me when I had my back surgery this fall as she is a nurse. She looks just like my grandmother…….the only member of the family that does. It was like seeing my grandmother alive again.

]]> By: Jean Burman http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1752 Jean Burman Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:51:52 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1752 I'd imagine it would be relatively easy then to trace your heritage Katherine! I seem to remember you saying you had traced your family back... how very interesting to have roots in Sweden... such a beautiful country. I have a passing interest in genealogy... tho certainly not one that is keen enough to go delving too deeply into... but my younger brother has done some delving and I am always interested to hear what he has uncovered. There are many many branches of the Melville family... there's even a website... clanmelville.org which is based in Utah of all places! They have an annual reunion for anyone with that surname (even if it's a derivative of... such as Melvin even Maluile!) They look to be a friendly bunch... descendants of Herman's mob no doubt? I think Herman would have more than approved of the happy "intercontintental" repartee here on the blog... he would have LOVED the internet! :-D From Moby Dick... "If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth -- off lone Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.... For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils." --Moby-Dick, Chapter 53 (The Gam) I’d imagine it would be relatively easy then to trace your heritage Katherine! I seem to remember you saying you had traced your family back… how very interesting to have roots in Sweden… such a beautiful country.

I have a passing interest in genealogy… tho certainly not one that is keen enough to go delving too deeply into… but my younger brother has done some delving and I am always interested to hear what he has uncovered. There are many many branches of the Melville family… there’s even a website… clanmelville.org which is based in Utah of all places! They have an annual reunion for anyone with that surname (even if it’s a derivative of… such as Melvin even Maluile!) They look to be a friendly bunch… descendants of Herman’s mob no doubt?

I think Herman would have more than approved of the happy “intercontintental” repartee here on the blog… he would have LOVED the internet! :-D

From Moby Dick…

“If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth — off lone Fanning’s Island, or the far away King’s Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact…. For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.” –Moby-Dick, Chapter 53 (The Gam)

]]> By: Garden Jools http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-1751 Garden Jools Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:49:27 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/2008/01/23/whats-in-a-name/#comment-1751 Aha! Does that make you a rare and precious gem Katherine??? Apparently with my surname, there is two spellings of it. The Irish spell it "Gilmour", the Scots spell it "Gilmore". There is an Irish and a French way of spelling Claire (French) and Clare (Irish) and...Claire goes to a school known as Calare, very confusing when you are only 6 and you cannot spell! I have a new "friend" whose family roots stem from Rome. He is so interesting to listen to when he talks about the variances of the provences of Italy and what is truely Italian and what has come from outside influences. He has cooked some "real pasta sauce" (and it was delightful!!) for me, as he chops and sautees he talks of the food and where it comes from (all fresh ingredients). I have always had a healthy respect for the Italians and what they have "brought" to the world. I am mesmerised with the history of ancient cultures and pay attention to what has stayed the same and what has "evolved", especially with food and how it is grown. My friend has returned to Italy several times to link up with family members and get a close up of his heritage...its fascinating stuff!! Aha! Does that make you a rare and precious gem Katherine???
Apparently with my surname, there is two spellings of it. The Irish spell it “Gilmour”, the Scots spell it “Gilmore”. There is an Irish and a French way of spelling Claire (French) and Clare (Irish) and…Claire goes to a school known as Calare, very confusing when you are only 6 and you cannot spell! I have a new “friend” whose family roots stem from Rome. He is so interesting to listen to when he talks about the variances of the provences of Italy and what is truely Italian and what has come from outside influences. He has cooked some “real pasta sauce” (and it was delightful!!) for me, as he chops and sautees he talks of the food and where it comes from (all fresh ingredients). I have always had a healthy respect for the Italians and what they have “brought” to the world. I am mesmerised with the history of ancient cultures and pay attention to what has stayed the same and what has “evolved”, especially with food and how it is grown. My friend has returned to Italy several times to link up with family members and get a close up of his heritage…its fascinating stuff!!

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