New Post
Search
HelpA fun discovery
As long as I've known my boyfriend's grandmother, she's been referred to as Grace. Her granddaughter's middle name is Grace too.
But last night I was thinking about it a little more -- it wouldn't make a ton of sense for a woman born in the 1930s in the Dominican Republic to have the English name Grace. Possible, but not likely.
So I asked my boyfriend if that was her full name, and he found out (he didn't even know!) that her full name is Graciela Orfelina.
Wdyt? I think it's fabulous and it makes me want to explore more names from his family!
Also, what do you think about the fact that the family Anglicized the name so much that one of her sons gave her daughter the filler middle name Grace instead of Graciela? It kind of bothers me, though maybe I'm reading too much into it.
But last night I was thinking about it a little more -- it wouldn't make a ton of sense for a woman born in the 1930s in the Dominican Republic to have the English name Grace. Possible, but not likely.
So I asked my boyfriend if that was her full name, and he found out (he didn't even know!) that her full name is Graciela Orfelina.
Wdyt? I think it's fabulous and it makes me want to explore more names from his family!
Also, what do you think about the fact that the family Anglicized the name so much that one of her sons gave her daughter the filler middle name Grace instead of Graciela? It kind of bothers me, though maybe I'm reading too much into it.
This message was edited 7/7/2015, 9:21 AM
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1