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Welcome to my personal webpage. Many personal pages
are in essence ego pages. That may be the case here as well, but I do have some
interests besides statistics and computing and perhaps you'd be interested.
These interests include family, music, photography and art, gardening, Christmas, and
old cars. I am in the process of building this page. Because it is an ego
thing, its not a high priority. So all aspects of my interests may not yet be
represented. Please be a little patient as I build this page and thanks for
stopping by.
Here is a generic
professional
work description and resume.
PICTURE GALLERY
The Wegman Name: One of the interesting things to me are other
Wegmans and the origin of the name. My version of Wegman was originally
Wegmann, a German name from the Southern, Catholic part of Germany. The branch
of the German Wegmanns I represent seem to have immigrated to the US somewhere
between 1850 and 1890. The paternal side of my family settled in the
western part of Illinois originally and were farmers. The name was Americanized
by dropping the second "n" probably around the time of
World War I. Presumably discretion was a wise move at this time. My father's
family moved to the German section of St. Louis, Missouri around this time and
ran a small local grocery store that ultimately collapsed during the Depression.
"Weg" is the German word for "way" or "away" and of course "Mann" is "man".
The kind interpretation of the name is "someone who lives down the road or way,"
usually meaning a farmer who lives out of town. The unkind interpretation, to
which I give little credence, is "highwayman", i.e. a thief or a robber.
Interestingly enough, the word "weg" is also a Dutch word with the same
meanings as the German word and "man" is the Dutch version of "man". Thus
Wegman is also a Dutch name. When I travel to Germany or Austria, the natives
take me to be of German extraction (and usually correct my misspelling).
However, when I travel to the Netherlands, the natives take me to be of Dutch
extraction. Wegman or variants such as Weggemann, Wegmann, Wagman, Wayman
are names moderately common in the midwest and usually associated with a
German heritage. In New York state and the Northeast U.S., the name also exists and is often taken
to be of Dutch heritage and frequently of Jewish ethnicity.
Some other Wegmans of interest also have
webpages.
When my children, Lisa and Kate, were smaller, I wrote a number of Christmas
stories for them. These stories reflect a lot of our family life as well as
trying to be innovative and fun. You may want to have a glimpse at them.
Soon we will have grandson pictures.
My daughter, Kate, also has a homepage.
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