Correct records?
How correct and accurate are the sources titled the following?
How were they compiled.?
- Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers, Vols. 1-2
- Membership of The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
I am finding middle names that have no base in any earlier records, such as births, christenings and marriages, but seem to be copied in records afterwards.
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These records would have been complied based on information provided to the complier.
Bear in mind that it is fairly common for a person to adopt a middle name after the time of christening and/or civil birth registration.
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I have been intrigued by the fact that practically all of the individuals I have researched who have emigrated to the U.S. from the United Kingdom have "acquired" a middle name (well, at least an initial) by the time they are recorded in U.S. census records. Few have been found having a middle name in documents relating to when they lived in the U.K., and it has also been rare for me to discover what (if anything) that middle name initial actually represented.
I wonder if anyone familiar with families who moved to the U.S. can advise of any common reason for them apparently feeling the need to suddenly adopt a middle name / initial on their settling in the United States? I can only think it was connected with their wanting to become fully integrated with the existing population, most of whom did have a middle name from birth. (Perhaps, similarly, why many immigrants - to the U.S. and the U.K. - from eastern Europe also "anglicised" their names upon arrival at their new home?)
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