2 - 2017 - Genealogy Tip of the Day

Don’t assume that because a name is short that it is short for something. Not everything that appears to be a diminutive is necessarily a diminutive for that person’s name. Bert Hendrickson owed my relative money in the 1920s. My initial attempts to locate him focused on searching for Albert–because that’s what Bert “had” to stand for. Nope. Turns out his real name was Bert after all.