This month’s Bio Builders Challenge theme is People whose last name is the same as a coin or currency.
You are not limited to profiles on your Watchlist.
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Here's our checklist:
Data Section:
Biography Section:
You can see some ideas on where to find some of this information on the Biography Builders space page.
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OK - a good opportunity to work on some orphans because I doubt I will find any on my watchlist for this one.
How about Penny, Pound, Cash .. if given names were included I'd suggest Buck
Here's a Wikipedia list of currently circulating currencies and many of the pages for individual currencies give the names of coins used in that currency.
Some examples might be Penny, Shilling, Dollar, Pound, Franc, Rand.
Nope it was me I found a couple Money's last month and thought it would make a great challenge.
Thanks for that Janet, it is a challenging challenge for me but I will find something and it will be fun as always!!
I don't do these challenges, but cannot help wondering if names such as "Miss Moneypenny" would qualify?
I don't think I'll find any in my own watch list, so will look out for any I come across whilst doing unsourced profiles. Can we count spelling variations such as Penney? Or variation of Nickel?
# Mary Ann Fagg nee Penny
Hope to get some done
1. Anna Maria (Marks) Burg (1891 - 1974)
I am in for this month, Ernie is the guy who led me to suggest this challenge. Hope you all have fun this month.
I think I'll find a few.....
1. Ellen Luddington https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nicholl-45
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Francke-62
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nicholl-3
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-2438
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-125
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-1050
7. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-2427
8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Josselyn-104 (wife of Thomas Nichols)
9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-6584
10. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-4127
11. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-4043
12. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-4130
13. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shekel-5
14. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shekel-6
15. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-11311 wife of Caleb Nichols
16. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Talent-1
17. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Talent-34
18. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crown-129
Hi I will take part this month
I found this profile in orphaned Pound surname Willie Pound
The profile was created in 2012 his Bio currently reads Willie Pound... but he at least has a wife and her family was filled out so I spent an hour or two researching her. Nancy McIntyre. If anyone has a couple of minutes to look at the research notes I've put on her profile I'd be grateful. I don't want to start Willie's biography until I'm sure I've got the facts right (and its a wee bit complicated).
thanks
Here's my list for this month, wish I had time to do more because I have lots of Coynes and Pennys:
1. William George Dollar (1896-1926)
2. James Penny (1820-1860)
3. Mary Josephine Sterling (1880-1883)
4. Geoffrey Farthing (1922-1943)
5. Mary Ann (Halfpenny) McPartland (1848 - 1918)
6. Hugh Penny (1830 - 1835)
I'll try to find a few, maybe Marks. How about something like Morgan (as in the Morgan dollar)? Profiles improved:
I didn't know the Rand was a type of currency, but I have a lot in my watchlist.
My grandmother's maiden name was Nickell and she had 11 siblings, so I can work for a long time on this challenge!
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nickell-722
I especially need to work on the Biography section.
I'll join this month, since I found one family I can work on.
This one was hard to research due to the early date, I still can't find his parents, but will put it up anyway.
1. Hammond Shilling
2. Anne Shilling
3. Margaret Helsdon Shilling Hubberd
4. Mary Ore
5, Gabriel Ore
I found a couple of orphaned Farthings from a 2011 gedcom that appear to have been lost down the back of the Wikitree sofa ever since: