My name is Lynn Erwin Ellsworth. I was born in 1936 in Washington, DC, raised in and around Los Angeles, California and several places in California and Arizona. I filled a mission for my church to Uruguay and Peru, 1956 to 1958.
Education and Work Experience:[edit | edit source]
editI graduated from BYU in 1963, married a young lady from Mesa, Arizona. I taught High School Spanish and American Government in Eagar, Arizona, 1963-1965. I became a computer programmer in 1966 and kept with that vocation until retirement in 2001.
I created the Oswego Deed Index. You can enter those words into a browser and find an index to deeds recorded in Oswego County, New York between 1796 thru 1861. At present (2018) I am serving at the St George FamilySearch Center where I've been teaching Spanish Indexing and Spanish Research.
Etymology of my name[edit | edit source]
editMy great uncle was Lynn Whiting, the Whiting family was from Lynn, Massachusetts in colonial times. Erwin was from my father's first cousin, Erwin Curtis who was lost when his ship, the heavy-cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese torpedo right at the end of WWII. The surname Ellsworth is said to have been derived from the residence of its first bearers at a place of that name in Cambridgeshire, England. It was originally spelled Eelsworth, meaning "Place of the eels", being situated on a stream which was at one time famous for its eels. Some Ellsworth name variations: Eelsworth, Elesworth, Elsworth, Ellesworthe, Ellesworth, Elswort, Elesworde, Aylsworth, Ayleworth, Aylworth, Elworth, Ellisworth, Elsworthe, and Ellsworth.