From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Apr 6 09:45:45 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k36Fjhjb027703; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:45:43 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k36Fjhhv000302 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:45:43 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k36DDoFI011423 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:13:50 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k36DDoeP011422 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:13:50 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k369fCFI010972 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:41:12 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k36CCrMR008225 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:12:53 -0600 X-Envelope-From: otso.havu@localnet.fi Thu Apr 6 06:12:53 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k36CCrjb008216 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:12:53 -0600 Received: from ns2.academica.fi (ns2.academica.fi [217.64.177.130]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k36CCmCu005434 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:12:51 -0600 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ip82-133-189-141.customer.academica.fi [82.133.189.141]) by ns2.academica.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7562577C9 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:12:35 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <443505CA.8000806@localnet.fi> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:12:58 +0300 From: Otso Havu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com References: <200604060903.k3693KWa026765@lists5.rootsweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200604060903.k3693KWa026765@lists5.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Is Bridget a nickname? No ! She is a Swedish saint Birgitta or Bridget, born 1303, dead in Rome 1373; daughter of Birger Persson Brahe. (My 1 cousin 20 removed.) Known worldwide, founder of the Brigittines or Birgittines, monasteries still alive, sisters today even here in Finland. --- I am researching an ancestor with the name of Bridget from Ireland. I was wondering if this could be a nickname for something else as Polly is a nickname for Mary, etc. Does anyone have any experience with this name? .....Karen --- Otso Havu otso.havu@localnet.fi