Lineage:Dampstead

The Lineages of Mikilati/Dampstead and Ulving/Waelsing are very interrelated and both can trace their lineage back to Lucius Septimius Odaenathus Odaenathus (b. about 205). Where they branch is an interesting question and has more to do with geography than with anything else. The real trick is identifying the members of and properly tracking the two families of Mikilati/Dampstead when they lived at the same time, intermarried, and gave their children the same personal names.

Name Origin

The elder of the two surnames is Dampstead and is probably the original tribal designation. It appears that the name Mikilati (from the Roman Maculatis, "Freckled") was an epithet applied to certain members of the Dampstead tribe to further identify certain individuals. Thus we see that the Mikilati were actually a family or distinct lineage within the larger Dampstead ethnographic or tribal group.

Dampstead is a geographic term indicating that the tribe was lived in low-lying marshlands behind bulwarks and damps and were more than likely seafarers which would certainly be true given the professions and locations of their descendants. It is my belief that they were most likely located in the regions of the Nederlands and frequently traded with and colonized along the coastal areas of Scandinavia.

Use conventions for the surnames Dampstead and Mikilati.

The surname Mikilati will be used to identify all of the direct male offspring of Danpr Rigsson (d. 320). It will also be used to identify the female offspring as well, but not the children of the females. The children of the Mikilati females will take the surname designation of their fathers unless the father is unidentified or unknown, in which case they will retain the surname Mikilati.

In instances where the Mikilati and Dampstead intermarry. The name Mikilati will become the dominant name and Dampstead will be used as a secondary first name to identify the crossover. Almoustine 01:59, 1 July 2008 (EEST)