maiden name meme

[cimorene]

a meme, because i'm curious...:
from most female to most male... (ie mom's mom's mom to mom's dad's mom to dad's mom's mom...)

grandmothers' maiden names (origin of name, if you know it)?

1. boos
2. ganzglass (polish jewish)

great-grandmothers' maiden names?

1. nodulski (polish catholic)
2. novinski (polish catholic)
3. [don't know] (polish jewish)
4. hodgson (british)

weirdest or coolest given name(s) of grandparent or great-grandparent?

1. jakov arkadyevich (dad's dad's dad)(russian jew of german extraction somewhere down the line)