What's in a Name - Part 3

[Jack Evans]

Thank you both for your replies. I would be happy to introduce myself in the new member section. This feels like a good space.

[Marcine]

Amazing back stories here for everyone's names!
I chose Marcine because it is the name of one of my ancestors, 5 generations back, who emigrated from Hamburg to Quebec in 1863. She got on a sailboat with her elderly parents, husband and their 3 month old daughter for what surely was a harrowing trip across the North Atlantic.
The family originally lived in West Prussia/Poland and settled in central Wisconsin.
I only found this family history out very recently through my own research. No one ever talked to me about this remarkable, ancestral courage.
Shame was the muzzle.
So choosing this name connects me to Marcine's courage to make a better life for herself and her parents and infant. Without that choice, I probably wouldn't be here today.

[pseudonym]

I'm paranoid. I don't want the things I say here to be easily linked to me, both because I don't want to give people the opportunity to weaponize it against me, and because I don't want that worry to keep me from opening up here.