today's google search top hits: boza

Boza Wikipedia page

"Boza, also bosa (from Turkish: boza ^[1][2]), is a popular fermented beverage in Turkey, Albania,Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of Romania, Serbia,Ukraine and also Poland and Lithuania. (Although not as often in the last two countries.) It is a maltdrink, made from maize (corn) and wheat in Albania, fermented wheat in Turkey and wheat or milletin Bulgaria and Romania. It has a thick consistency and a low alcohol content (usually around 1%), and has a slightly acidic sweet flavor."

Recipes for Boza

Nothing new on the name.

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Holcomb Kansas Wikipedia page

"Holcomb is a city in Finney County, Kansas, United States. The population was 2,026 at the 2000 census.

Holcomb is known for the murders of the Herbert W Clutter family, which formed the basis of the Truman Capote novel In Cold Blood."

Which is especially fun because a), that's a known book and b), the county is my sister's married name.

Holcomb Mississippi Official website

"From its roots in the Choctaw Indian Nation through white settlement and the South's cotton boom, the town offers intriguing links with the past."

Holcombe Family Genealogy page

Holcomb Farm official website

"A place where art meets nature. Fun nurtures education. And wonder spawns appreciation. We offerclasses, programs and activities for anyone who wants to experience the wonder of nature…all around our wonderful, unspoiled rural setting in West Granby, Connecticut."

Holcomb Kansas official page

Robin Holcomb official page

"Pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Robin Holcomb has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia as a solo artist and the leader of various ensembles. Living in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1980s, she was a founder of Studio Henry, a venue for maverick composers, and theNew York Composers Orchestra. Living in Seattle since 1989, she continues to compose and record songs and music for solo piano, chamber ensembles, dance, theatre and film."

From HouseofNames.com

And nothing on Boza. There's rarely anything on Boza.

The interesting thing is that there's semi-specific name-origins, and links to historical names that could be followed up-- though the etymology of Holcomb is different than it has been elsewhere that I've seen.

info!

I got a big envelope in the mail today, and inside were pages and pages of notes from my Aunt about the names and relationships of family members! So now on my dad's side, it goes back something like six or seven generations, and after that, it goes immediately back to Berlin, Germany, so I guess when I can pay for the Ancesty.com full access, I'll be paying ten extra dollars for the international one so I can trace that further back, too. Which I was going to do anyway, because mom's side dead-ends at Ellis Island.

It's so awesome. All tehse people-- huge families-- my 4great grandpa had 18 or 20 children with only two different wives. Crazy.

And there are new leafs on the tree, including a few that link to other people's trees, which, of course, I have to pay to access. But it's nice to know they're there!

Random Searching

Of the four names of the grands, Berniers have alot of hits during random serching on the internets, and seem to have been really important in Canada. There's mention of Algonquin marriages and relatives, so maybe that myth is actually truth? I can't seem to find any names that I know, but I've only got a few generations to work on, and no money to buy info off the pay sites just now...

Holcombs are all over New England, and seem to have drifted westward fairly recently; my grandpa is from Missouri, and there's a good portion of hits there, but none of the few names I know. Lots of Native American connections in this part of the family, too, so that's cool. Maybe we're more NA than we thought?

Bouza: Galician: habitational name from any of various places in Galicia named Bouza, from bouza‘fenced plantation of trees’ or ‘infertile land’.

It seems all Holcombs come down from William the Conquerer: "Jan: You can buy the Holcombs, Nation Builders at Barnes Surname Facts

Barnes Surname Board

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Holcomb Surname Board

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Variations on GAIN:

(Mac) GEANEY (O) GEANEY, Gaine

The prefix 0 has been almost complete dropped from (O) Geane. the Gaelic-Irish form of is Ó Geibheannaigh ( Keaveney): this Geaney has been found mainly in counties Cork and Kerry, where the abbreviated variant Geane or Gaine is found. Early anglicized forms of the name were O'Giany etc. - Father Roger O'Giana was captured by the English in 1599 and thrown into Cork prison from where he managed to escape. The Mac prefix has been usually retained. MacGeany, much less numerous than (0) Geany, and distinct from it, belongs today to south Ulster.

Also, Ancestry.com taunts me by having good-looking info that I can't access until I can pony up 20$ a month for it. Jeeze.

What's in a name? Boza

BERNIER

1. French: from the personal name Bernier, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bern ‘bear’ + hari ‘army’.
2. German (from Slavic): habitational name from a place so named in Mecklenburg.

Place of Origin	Bernier Immigrants
France	11
Germany	10
Canada	4
Mecklenburg	4
Hamburg	3
Italy	2

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

What's in a name? Holcomb

HOLCOMB

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, and Somerset, so named from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’, ‘deep’ + cumb ‘valley’.

Place of Origin	Holcomb Immigrants
England	6
Germany	2
Switzerland	1
Norway	1
London	1

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

What's in a name? Boza

1. BOZA
2. Hispanicized spelling of Galician Bouza.
3. Hungarian: from the old secular personal name Boza or Bozás; possibly also a metonymic occupational name from boza ‘beer’.

Place of Origin	Boza Immigrants
Cuba	11
England	3
Austria	3
Spain	3
Great Britain	2
Preußen;Germany	2

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

What's in a name? Gain

GAIN

English: variant of Gaines.

Place of Origin	Gain Immigrants
Ireland	26
England	17
Germany	14
Great Britain	5
Mexico	4
France	2

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

---> GAINES

1. English (of Norman origin): nickname for a crafty or ingenious person, from a reduced form of Old French engaine ‘ingenuity’, ‘trickery’ (Latin ingenium ‘native wit’). The word was also used in a concrete sense of a stratagem or device, particularly a trap.
2. This surname has also assimilated reduced variants of Welsh Gurganus.

op Places of Origin for Gaines

Place of Origin	Gaines Immigrants
Ireland	24
England	13
Scotland	8
Great Britain	5
Germany	3
Denmark	1

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

New Site!

I found this site that links to dozens upon dozens of other sites: Cyndi's List. It's pretty awesome. I haven't figured out how exactly to use it and it's various indexes, but I've already found some info that might be useful, and the Main Index goes by country, so when we get around to searching through the Irish side of the family, there we are! They don't have Cuba, though, so that's a little disappointing. Maybe we can send on the links and get the list biggerfied.