White Rose

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by Janice Brown

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New Hampshire Genealogy: Surname LNU

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by Janice Brown

It seems everywhere I go, the surname LNU pops up out of the woodwork.  It is very popular in New Hampshire, and most other places.


If you visit Ancestry.com and search for LNU, there are 43,363 entries with that last name.  Strangely the majority of people with this surname are female, and I can’t seem to find a genealogical connection between them. You would think with so many LNU family members, that Rootsweb and Ancestry.com would devote an entire surname message board to them, but they don’t. Maybe I should start one!

I did find a few of those helpful Genealogy and Family Resources pages devoted to the LNU family. They offered to search Burke’s Peerage & Gentry for me, or let me know if a LNU received a Medal of Honor, but I’m short of cash this week.

In quite a few cases you’ll find the LNU family married into the UNK family. After a great deal of research, I’ve discovered that FNU LNU is probably the progenitor of this entire line. If I keep looking, I’ll be sure to discover that Paris Hilton is descended from this line.

Janice

*ADDITIONAL READING*

–Carnival of Genealogy: Topic, Surnames!–

–What’s in a Name?(Smurf Family)–

–Using Clipart to Create a Coat of Arms–

P.S.: Possibly a few of my readers haven’t figured out that this article is written in good humor, but with tongue in cheek, so to speak. LNU, FNU and UNK are acronyms. LNU indicates that the Last Name of a person is UNKNOWN.  FNU similiarly means First Name Unknown. UNK just means unknown. Therefore FNU LNU is a pseudonym used by genealogists, but sometimes used by law enforcement, instead of using John Doe,  to indicate someone whose first and last names are unknown. This is a good idea, since your unknown person might actually be named John Doe (or Jane Doe) or even Dunham.

In addition, The LNU family is not to be confused with L’nu Native People.  Also, it is possible that there are real people who actually have the surname LNU. The LNU crest shown above is a figment of my imagination. Their family motto, Lapsus Calami is Latin for “A slip of the pen.“

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LNU Family Crest

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by Janice Brown

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July 4, 2007: New Hampshire's Just Expectation

Posted on 4 July, 2007 by Janice Brown

“Those celebrated defenders of the liberties of this country, whom menaces could not intimidate, corruption seduce, nor flattery allure:

Those intrepid assertors of the rights of mankind, whose philosophy and policy have enlightened the world in twenty years, more than it was ever before enlightened in many centuries, by ancient schools or modern universities.”

“A trust of the greatest magnitude is committed to this Legislature, and the eyes of the world are upon you. Your country expects from the result of your deliberations, in concurrence with the other branches of government, consideration abroad and contentment at home; Prosperity, Order, Justice, Peace, and Liberty. And may God Almighty's providence assist you to answer their just expectation.”

—John Adams, [then] Vice President of the United States, spoken to the New Hampshire State Legislature, April 23, 1789, as published in “Osborne's New-Hampshire Spy” newspaper of Portsmouth. Ten years later he became the second President of the United States.

So what does this mean today? It means that our ancestors, who sacrificed their lives and fortunes to insure our freedom, indeed have JUST EXPECTATIONS of our personal behavior, and even more so, that our our leadership (because they set the example for the rest) to promote prosperity, order, justice, peace and liberty.   And if we do not see these goals as a primary concern of our leadership…. then we need to take action to elect those who do.

Janice

PS: Also see 4th of July Reflections: A New Hampshire Patriot.

–Madonna With Musket–

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New Hampshire’s Tombstone Symbols

Posted on 3 July, 2007 by Janice Brown

Sometimes other’s “do it better” than I ever could–in this case writing about the symbols found on tombstones.

Terry Thornton over at Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi has written a great article about the meaning behind those hands found on tombstones, whether they are pointing up, down or sideways.

The photograph above is a New Hampshire tombstone of Ephraim S. Emerson that is located in Merrill Cemetery, at the junction of Huse Road and South Willow Street in Manchester New Hampshire. A hand is clearly visible with a finger pointing upward.  Want to know what is means?  Read Terry’s article. Continue reading →

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