Amusing Names in the Family Tree

While researching your family history, you may sometimes come across funny names in your family tree or maybe an amusing name will pop out in an old document. For fun, we took a look at some profiles in Geni’s World Family Tree and a few historical records to find some very amusing names that will be sure to give you a chuckle.

Check them out below!

1. Here’s Pleasant Wear in the World Family Tree.

2. Wealthy Nutter can be found in the 1920 U.S. census in Montana with her daughter’s family.

1920 U.S. census / MyHeritage SuperSearch

3. Happy Day can be found in the 1940 U.S. census in Oklahoma as a hired hand.

1940 U.S. census / MyHeritage SuperSearch

4. And in that same 1940 U.S. census, Art Walls can be found in the same household below him!

5. Before marrying Lincoln Haskins, Experience Haskins was known as Experience Paine!

6. Thankslord Shepard emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1635 with her husband.

7. A seven-year-old Valentine King can be found with his family in Iowa in the 1850 U.S. census.

1850 U.S. census / MyHeritage SuperSearch

8. One wonders about the story behind the name Argyle Dick Frye, who also has a brother named Sing. You may also find a good laugh looking at Argyle’s entry in the 1930 U.S. census.