Where is my name from?

My last name is Stivers. What country and/or ethnicity is my name? Answer? Favorite Answer According to Ancestry.com: “Possibly an Americanized spelling of Dutch Stijvers, occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch stiven ‘to play the flute or shawm’ (from Middle Dutch stive ‘flute’).” According to another web page, “stiver” was a Dutch … Read more

I don’t know my Great-Grandmothers maiden name but would like to know exactly where she came from.?

Does anyone have ideas how to start a complex journey like this? She was a prisoner in the Armenian Genocide and came to America sometime in the early ‘s. My grandfather has passed away and my aunt and father didn’t speak armenian so they didn’t communicate much with her while they were young. ✅ Answers … Read more