When I announced that I would be calling on the world at large to help solve the mystery of my name, effectively crowdsourcing the task, I didn’t expect much to come of it. Honestly, it seemed like a way of making a pretty tremendous proposition more manageable and using a catchy web neologism. But, within [...]
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Crowdsourcing Works!
Posted in David on November 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Any Other Name
Posted in David, NJFP on November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Question: How does a family with little German heritage get a German surname?
Answer: To be determined.
As family mysteries go, ours is small but puzzling. Our name, Wegbreit, is distinctly German, meaning something like “Broadway” or “wide street,” but we have few ties to Germany. We did not suffer the indignity of changing our name because [...]
