{"id":5235,"date":"2014-08-13T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2014-08-11T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:47:28","slug":"mapping-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/mapping-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping a name"},"content":{"rendered":"

You ever spend a really long time just to get a visual, or organize a huge amount of information for your own personal digestion?\u00a0 And then you do nothing with it.\u00a0 Well, welcome to mine.<\/p>\n

In the course of doing some genealogical research I started to wonder where my name-sake got her name, and then to also wonder about the popularity and the spread of the name LeEtta.\u00a0 And so I poured through the census and made a map of LeEtta movement from the 1860 census to the 1940 census in 40 year increments.\u00a0 It looks like we’re taking over the world, but really there are only 249 of 132 million people in 1940.\u00a0 That’s like one in half a million.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Given name LeEtta\/Leetta in the 1860 Census.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Given name LeEtta\/Leetta in the 1900 Census.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Given name LeEtta\/Leetta in the 1900 Census.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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You ever spend a really long time just to get a visual, or organize a huge amount of information for your own personal digestion?\u00a0 And then you do nothing with it.\u00a0 Well, welcome to mine. In the course of doing some genealogical research I started to wonder where my name-sake got her name, and then… Continue reading Mapping a name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[205,123],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-genealogy","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7942,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/googling-my-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":5235,"position":0},"title":"Googling my name","author":"leems","date":"June 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Like everyone does, every now and then I Google myself. 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