As the Tree Grows

     The family tree is growing: I'm going to be an aunt! My sister, Sarah, and her husband, Ryan, are going to have a baby.  I'm excited to become an aunt and I'm also very excited to talk about names.

     It's still a little early, but I love names! There's already one name picked out: if the baby is a boy, his middle name will be Thomas. This is our paternal Grandfather's name, Ryan's middle name and his mother's maiden hame.

     I decided to go through our family tree and find more names of genealogical significance. These are names that I like or sorta-like, and which are not names of living people. These might not be the best choices of all possible names, but are just the best names in our family tree (in my opinion).  Also, I don't like super-popular names, so I've excluded some names I really like because they're so popular right now.

Boys	Girls
Milo - The name of Ryan's Great- Great Grandfather Anderson - A popular middle name           on our side of the family        Tucker - The city our dad grew           up in      Alexander - The surname of our  Great-Great Grandmother	Leila - Our Great-Great  Grandmother Margaret - Commonly found on both  sides of the family Dora - Our 3x Great Grandmother's name, also our Great-Grandmother, LeDora Caroline - Our family has deep roots in both South and North Carolina

     And just for the heck of it, here are some genealogically based names that I would not recommend:

Permelia

Honorias

Armistead

Delmus

Cranberry