My Name Is Losing Popularity Jose used to be the most popular Hispanic name there was. Not so anymore. The latest data I could find is that it’s dropped from number one to lower than number 50 in recent years. All this makes me wonder. If there are about 26,000 Miers around the world now, …. Read More
Celebrating the Harvest in the Mier Name As I wrote about in my Origins of the name Jose Mier page it seems to be a derivation of Latin “mies” which refers to ripe grain or the harvest. It also reinforces the fact that wheat (and other grains) which were used to make bread were of …. Read More
Use of Google Books I took my own advice and used one of the Google tools I listed in my previous Jose-Mier.com post. I decided to go into Google Books directly and I wasn’t disappointed. There’s a wealth of information to be found. Thanks to Google every name, word and punctuation mark in thousands of …. Read More
As you know I search for Jose Mier. Not one specific Jose but any and all I can find to add to my list, but tangentially I engage in a kind of genealogy. My Miers are not related—not members of a single family tree—but when the opportunity presents itself, I like to dig a little …. Read More
Jose Mier in 16th Century Ecuador The earliest Jose Mier name I’ve found so far is my latest. The information is sketchy but there are a couple things I take away from this find. Number one, this is the first Mier I’ve found in Ecuador. It isn’t surprising in that Mier is a Latino surname, …. Read More
Genealogy As A Business It’s an interesting idea, now that I’ve been searching for Jose Mier on the Internet for some time: making money in the genealogy business. Interesting, but not really for me. That doesn’t mean it’s not a great idea for someone else. My interest in genealogy is tangential. I just happen upon …. Read More
PeekYou is Another Research Tool My Jose Mier searches take me in many directions and just about every search I do is different from the last. Take this latest search, for instance. After browsing Google images for “jose mier” I was led to the short biography of Jose Maiz Mier, on which I posted yesterday. …. Read More
Famous Jose Mier Number 17 Lived 90 Years The wealth of personal information it has been my pleasure to take in during the course of my Jose Mier searches is almost overwhelming. I get a glimpse into the lives of people living and deceased and I’m touched by being a part (albeit small and obscure) …. Read More
Jose Mier Celebrates Others With Tribute Video No Jose Mier search today. Only a celebration of all those I’ve had the pleasure to “meet” over the course of my Jose Mier name search. I usually begin my search on Google and look for the most “famous” Jose Miers—those whose websites or listings on the Internet …. Read More
Jose Mier Researches More of His Namesake City Searching for Jose Mier often leads me to articles on that city in northern Mexico that bears my surname. Or perhaps I bear the same of that city. In any case, searching for Mier inevitably brings up something related to that city. You can read some of …. Read More