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Subject: Re: [PIATT] Piatt as surname.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:33:39 +0000

For Marion and Don,

Pyatt Martin and Piatt Williamson are the two earliest uses of Piatt as a given
name that I can think of. (And my subject line should have said "given" name--
too many thoughtless mistakes lately.) I believe it is Pyatt Martin who is
buried in Marion Co OH, in the first row next to the road.

I was really surprised to find these other Piatt/Pyatt given names and that
several of them were female.

I would say that Piatt/Pyatt as a given name or middle name as Don Piatt Koch
mentioned would be a sure clue to a Piatt family connection.

Don, you said that the Sisters thought that Don was a nickname for Donald but it
wasn't. My brother-in-law is also Don Piatt, not Donald. His mother intended to
name him for Donn Piatt, the author, but the registrar of births failed to add
the second N. Maybe that was your mother's situation, too? Regardless, I like
use of mother's surname as middle name. While the elementary students might make
fun, it is a nice distinguished touch in later life. (Would you believe we even
had a regional judge named Bambi? How forward-thinking was this choice?)

Perhaps we should all keep in mind that any searchable database can be searched
by any word in the database. Many county census records are being posted on
rootsweb, too. Those pages can be searched with the "find of page" capability of
web browsers. So searching by "Cornelius" or "Daniel" would turn up all the
appearances of the name on the page. This just might help find the family you
know is there when the census taker mangled the last name beyond recognition or
the transcriber typed Platt or Pratt.

I'm looking at a page of the 1880 census which I printed, a page with my step-
grandfather as a 16 year old son living with his birth family. I had also
clicked on "prevous household" and found the family whose would become connected
in the next generation. The census taker could not spell anything. In this
second family the surname was Holand rather than Holland. Children included
Milley, Marthey, Rhubin, Nuton, Marry, Cristofer. Perhaps a search with "correct
spelling turned off" would have turned up Newton Holland, but if not, a search
for his father's given name of Nelson in the proper county would have turned up
the family. So the point of all this is that when a database is searchable,
think and search creatively. You never know what you might find.

--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH
lapiatt@.att.net

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