I went to this site: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery-browse/USA/Michigan/Eaton-County?id=county_1249 and went to a community in Eaton County. Then I selected one of the larger cemeteries. I set the flag to 1935 +/- 5 years and let it rip.
Eaton County, Michigan in the 1930s was light on Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, Eye-talians and middle-Easterners.
If your story is set in the southwest you might want to pull your own list of names.
I pulled names out of some National Geographics once, in the very early days of the internet, when I wanted names for a Malaysian character and a Danish character.
Should we know where they were from?
ReplyDeleteI don't mind sharing how I generated the list.
DeleteI went to this site: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery-browse/USA/Michigan/Eaton-County?id=county_1249 and went to a community in Eaton County. Then I selected one of the larger cemeteries. I set the flag to 1935 +/- 5 years and let it rip.
Eaton County, Michigan in the 1930s was light on Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, Eye-talians and middle-Easterners.
If your story is set in the southwest you might want to pull your own list of names.
Scrivener, a writing tool I've used, had a built-in random name generator. I found them a bit too generic, but still useful.
ReplyDeleteA.K.A Democrat voter rolls..
ReplyDeleteThis is what I use- https://www.behindthename.com/random/
ReplyDeleteI also redshirt folks...
I pulled names out of some National Geographics once, in the very early days of the internet, when I wanted names for a Malaysian character and a Danish character.
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