Potter Name Study
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Surname/tag: Potter
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Name Origin
The name Potter arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is a name for a maker of clay or metal storage vessels [1] which was in turn derived from the Latin word potus, meaning to drink. While this is the traditional understanding of the word, another reference states: "the term meant an apothecary or druggist."
The German surname Potter comes from the Middle Low German word "pot," meaning "a pot;" as such, it was likely an occupational name for a potter. See [1]
How to Join
Please contact the project leader Steven Potter or post a comment to the right. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!
Goals
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.
Task List
You may ask how you can help:
- Encourage your family to take DNA tests and direct them here for collaboration.
- Please encourage male family members to take the YDNA test.
- Add your haplogroup
- Connect unconnected Potter profiles and add missing people.
- Fill in missing children, dates, sources, etc.
- Look for obits in local papers and post them on your ancestors page
- Build biographies
- There must be many more things to do so make a suggestion
- Please category tag your Potter relatives with the Cemetery they are a part of. Wiki Code Example:
- Please ask if me or the G2G if you have questions.link title
All Pending Merges [2]
All Pending Merges Waiting for Action [3]
Unmerged matches [4]
All rejected matches [5]
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- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)