[or-roots] Ancestry.com - Response to Pat

[Kith-n-Kin]

Ah, yes, I have two lines that do that! BUT, they didn’t put I, II, III – makes us do it.

 

Oh, and Henry’s brother John has two boys, names the first John, names the second Henry. Henry names one boy Henry, and one John. Now, we have two ‘way tooooo many possibilities – and sometimes they weren’t even nice enough to leave the county! <G>

 

(Oh, that “skipping” a generation? Sometimes they didn’t like Dad, but sometimes the Dad-named child died, and they didn’t name another one the same name – and we can’t find the Bible record)

 

Pat

 

 

From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Darlene Casteel
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com - Response to Pat

 

And be a little more imaginative in their choice of first names, rather than continue from Sr. to Jr. to II to III, etc...  It's even worse when they skip a generation, and then go back to the same first name.

 

Darlene

 

 

I just wish my relatives had been kind enough to always spell their names the same way, spell them to the enumerator for the census, keep important dates in a family book, such as the Bible, and make sure everyone had a copy, generation after generation, not move around between censuses, especially to two or more locations, and if completing documents for military pensions, wills and so on, be sure to name the wife by her family name and given name, as well as her two parents and any siblings.  

 

Sigh. . . .

 

Pat (in Tucson)

 

 

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