I was almost a ‘Michael’, but my family decided to name me ‘Daniel Eliot Boese’. ‘Daniel’ means ‘God’s Judge’; ‘Eliot‘, depending on who you ask, could mean ‘height’; and ‘Boese’, again depending on who you ask, is either ‘Bush’ or ‘Wicked’. (One genealogist I corresponded with had a story about some robber-knights who’d gotten dubbed … Continue reading Lifelog: Name