CntryBoy777
Herd Master
With the family contacts ya should get some good Info...it is difficult for 'Outsiders' to really find anything out....and I knew a man from that Reservation several yrs ago.
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NH homesteader
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I don't totally have contacts due to multiple levels of serious family drama. The best I could do is say I hear I'm related to this guy who I hear was born here! He's been dead a while too I'm afraid.
CntryBoy777
Herd Master
I understand....but it may be worth the try....I know y'all will come up with a Good one though...I'll keep thinking bout it....LOL!!!
Alexz7272
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Doing a Celtic or Gaelic name could be awesome! (Or a Native American word, sorry i dont know the exact languages) Just makes sure it can be pronounced relatively easily or is easy to learn. I like that idea because it makes your farm unique and memorable 
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NH homesteader
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Yeah unfortunately all of the above are really complex languages (well to the average English speaking American anyway)!
Baymule
Herd Master
Do you have a type of tree or flower that is on your place? Creek?
Mike CHS
Herd Master
The Cherokee Nation has several web sites that will translate English into Cherokee. I would be surprised if you can't find something for your heritage people.
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NH homesteader
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@Baymule we have a TON of apple trees and the entire property us sectioned off in stone walls (in old New England fashion). My part of the property appears to have been the old homestead for whoever was here way back when. And my parents' property up the hill appears to have been sheep pasture. I've thought about trying to figure out who was here back then. I bet they'd love it being turned back into a homestead!
Baymule
Herd Master
I looked up Gaelic for stone and found this:
http://www.cuhwc.org.uk/page/meanings-gaelic-words-commonly-seen-hill-names
What you said about pronouncing Gaelic names is correct. The ones that stood out to me is Cairn, which means heap of stones and I recognized the word and knew what it meant. It has been used in the English language.
Cairn Farm
there's my two cents worth.
http://www.cuhwc.org.uk/page/meanings-gaelic-words-commonly-seen-hill-names
What you said about pronouncing Gaelic names is correct. The ones that stood out to me is Cairn, which means heap of stones and I recognized the word and knew what it meant. It has been used in the English language.
Cairn Farm
there's my two cents worth.
Baymule
Herd Master
And for apple, I found this
British and Celtic Folklore
In Celtic tradition, the Otherwordly Avalon was also known as the Avallach, the Isle of Apples, ruled by Fairy Queen, Morgan le Fay (Freeman, page 196). This is the land of fairies and the dead, where King Arthur was taken to be healed by his sister, Morgan. Like their cousins to the North, the Celts attributed the power of healing and youth, or rebirth, to apples. Apples are one of the magical trees part of the Celtic Ogham tree alphabet, its Ogham name being Quert.
The name Avalon has been overused, but Avallach is the same meaning and new to the ears. I also like Quert.
http://www.druidry.org/library/trees/tree-lore-apple
British and Celtic Folklore
In Celtic tradition, the Otherwordly Avalon was also known as the Avallach, the Isle of Apples, ruled by Fairy Queen, Morgan le Fay (Freeman, page 196). This is the land of fairies and the dead, where King Arthur was taken to be healed by his sister, Morgan. Like their cousins to the North, the Celts attributed the power of healing and youth, or rebirth, to apples. Apples are one of the magical trees part of the Celtic Ogham tree alphabet, its Ogham name being Quert.
The name Avalon has been overused, but Avallach is the same meaning and new to the ears. I also like Quert.
http://www.druidry.org/library/trees/tree-lore-apple
