16 responses to
“The Nalls.”

1. brian stouder said on September 7th, 2007 at 11:44 am

   ‘The Tal­ented Nancy Nall’ can­not help but be head and shoul­ders bet­ter than Mr Ripley!

2. Connie said on September 7th, 2007 at 11:55 am

   I would have thought I was the only Con­nie Ozinga as well. But if you google my name, you will find that a Con­nie Ozinga in Mary­land passed her sea­man­ship course. If you add my mid­dle name, Jo, I have zil­lions of google pages, mostly due to things like years worth of monthly board meet­ing min­utes. There are not that many Ozin­gas in the entire country.

3. Mindy said on September 7th, 2007 at 11:55 am

   I once Googled my hus­band and came up with three other guys who have his name with wives who have my name. Two of the cou­ples live in Min­neapo­lis. I bet they get each other’s phone calls all the time.

4. Danny said on September 7th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

   Imag­ine my aston­ish­ment when I found out I was not the only Danny Smith.

5. deb said on September 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

   i have a dop­pel­ganger who’s a bad artist and another – although i guess it could be the same woman – who’s a dog breeder. give you a lit­tle jolt to google your­self and find the word “bitches” right next to your name.

6. LA mary said on September 7th, 2007 at 12:54 pm

   At least once a day some­one tells me they either know another Mary Poole or they think they already know me. It’s one of those basic sound­ing names. My maiden name was a nice weird Frisian name, likes Connie’s is, and no one ever said they rec­og­nized that one.

7. John said on September 7th, 2007 at 1:08 pm

   Just a slight cor­rec­tion (since you prob­a­bly got the it from me), “vir­tu­ally all Nalls in the U.S. go back to a sin­gle ances­tor”. There are a few fam­i­lies started from dif­fer­ent immi­grants and a cou­ple of name changes (from Noll, Noul or Neal, for example).

   I truly hope you answered that you are The Tal­ented Nancy Nall, but not the afore­men­tioned actress.

8. Connie said on September 7th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

   LA mary, I love it when peo­ple rec­og­nize my name as a “nice weird Frisian name.” That is the rea­son I didn’t change my name when I married.

9. brian stouder said on September 7th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

   Way way way (waaaaaay) back in kinder­garten, I sat next to a girl named Brighetta Ohzie — prob­a­bly spelling that wrong, but her name was pro­nounced brigee­tah (empha­sis on the ‘gee’) ohzee. A very nice per­son, and I think her par­ents spoke German

10. Jen said on September 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    My dop­pel­ganger is a cousin by mar­riage, and “bor­rowed” my credit rat­ing to buy her house. Gotta love those free market-driven credit bureaus and their com­mit­ment to accuracy.

11. Linda said on September 7th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    Jen, you got off easy. When I tried to refi­nance my house, they mixed up my credit records with some­one with a sim­i­lar first name, born on the same day, in the same home­town, with a SS num­ber 1 digit off from mine, who had bad paper every­where. It took months to straighten it out, and one of the credit bureaus had the nerve to scold ME to be careful.

    And googling my name only reminds me of how many peo­ple with the same name are smarter and more accom­plished than me.

12. MichaelG said on September 7th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    There have been at least three other Michael Gold­ens who worked for the State of CA. Wildest of all is that there was one with the same mid­dle ini­tial who worked in the same unit where I work doing the same thing that I do. We used to call him my dad. He retired sev­eral years ago. Imag­ine the prob­lems with net­work log ons, email, mes­sages, travel claims, etc., etc. It was end­less. Worse still was that he was a big­oted, racist SOB. They used to call me the ‘good Michael G’ and he was the ‘bad’ one. I still get mes­sages and mail for the guy. Our peo­ple came from the same area in the west of Ire­land so I assume we’re related some­where way back. What a trip that was. I also ended up hav­ing to fix some jobs that he had fu I mean, messed up. I felt like a fool try­ing to explain how it wasn’t my fault. I’m lucky so far to not have had any credit or ID prob­lems because of any of the others.

13. Jen said on September 8th, 2007 at 8:50 am

    Linda: I can actu­ally relate. Same 1st/last name, same year of birth, and all her bad paper got mixed up in my file. Her FICO jumped 200 pts, and mine went down 300. I found out when my employer (a finan­cial insti­tu­tion) sent a VP to give me the “bad kid” talk for not meet­ing con­di­tions of employ­ment. QUITE the rude awak­en­ing. At least it only took 6 months to fix…

    http://​www​.annu​al​cred​itre​port​.com

14. Julie Robinson said on September 8th, 2007 at 9:52 am

    I grew up with a very uncom­mon name, Pig­ott; go ahead and take a minute to imag­ine the pos­si­bil­i­ties on the play­ground. Even so, when we were mar­ried I didn’t imme­di­ately change my name; that didn’t hap­pen until we were start­ing a fam­ily and I came to feel we should all share a name.

    There still isn’t a good solu­tion to this – who gives up their fam­ily name, do you just pick a new name and make both sides mad? We have friends who both hyphen­ated, def­i­nitely the most equi­table, but they both have unusally spelled and pro­nounced names. What hap­pens when their boys marry? Espe­cially if they find women who also have two last names.

    They shouldn’t have any credit switch prob­lems, though.

15. ashley said on September 9th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Well, there’s this.

16. Bev said on September 9th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    I found your blog some months ago while try­ing to find out who the heck Red Tra­bue was. I too, won­dered if you were Nancy Nall from Riley H.S. — whose lit­tle brother was my first “boy friend, not boyfriend” as I said back in first grade. I fig­ured out quickly you were too young to be ‘Riley Nancy’ but have been hap­pily read­ing your blog ever since. Alas, I still don’t know why they name roads and parks after Red Trabue…