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:facepalm: Ok, here's the skinny:
My mom had a Bernina sewing machine 18 months before I was born.....thank God she didn't have a Singer.
It does kind of help that there's the Swiss Mountain range by that name, the sewing machine is made in Switzerland, and is a truly incredible piece of machinery. I did learn how to sew on it too.
Mom bought her 2nd one back in 1987, but I haven't a clue if she has it still or uses it. She bought the newer version because it did more "things", and gave the old one to my ex-SIL. Figure she bought the 1st in 1959, so it had an exceptional run of about 36 years w/mom.
From what I found on Google, "Bernina" is also French, but I don't have any French, or Swiss ancestry. I've gone by Nina, Bernie, and Red because many people couldn't pronounce my name. School teachers usually just said my last name the first day of school....probably wouldn't have gone to well if they mispronounced my name. :floorlaugh:
.......... my folks were probably just shocked to have their first child be a red head and just named me after the first thing they glanced at when they got home from the hospital. My sibs were more fortunate, blond hair, blue eyes, tanned like they were Mexican, typical Swedes, Stephen Micheal, Jonathan David, and Kjersten <------actually have someone in the family tree way back by that name, but my sis had to wait 2+ years before it became official. My mom wanted Karina, dad wanted Kjersten, dad won, but it the mean time, my 18 month younger bro and me called her "no nothing" while my folks called her "no name". (Pronounced "Sure- sten") Us girls didn't get middle names. I felt cheated.:shame:
If I had been the first grand dauhter on my dad's side, I would have been named "Stacy" after my grandpa. But, I was the 2nd, so I dodged THAT bullet. Imagine being named after the man who would later molest you?
That's the back story about my name.
My first name was from the nurse attending my mother at the time. My two sisters before me, and my brother behind, all have family names in both first and middle. I am the only one that doesn't have a middle name. I told my kids that by the time I was born, my parents couldn't afford it. I was also the only one born bald as a cue ball and when it did come in it was reddish blonde. Everyone else had lots of dark hair. I have always been the odd ball.
My mother did call me ******lou and my sisters and I have seen a hospital birth certificate that has Louise as my middle name, but it's not on my original state issued one. My middle sister picked on me when we were younger (sometimes still does - when I go to dinner with her I call it my community service) and would tease me and tell people that we had a goat and her name was Louise and they named me after her. We never had any goats, but a friend of hers did and that was both her middle name and the goats. If I did have Louise as a middle name it would of been for my great great grandmother Louise, but I don't have a recognized middle name.