Jr. is something adopted much later in history. It was common practice when a child died young to name a subsequent child after him/her. I've seen this often in my own ancestors (in one case there was a father Henry, and 3 sons Henry all of whom died young, until the 4th Henry died of old age). I use RINs to distinguish when discussing these children, and make notes in the birth event that later child was likely named after the earlier deceased one. Marianne
-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Apr 26, 2012 1:11 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LegacyUG] Child's name re-used by same parents. > >I have an ancestor that had a child die the same year he was born. The >parents renamed their next child born (male also) with the same name. The >father's name was Samuel, the child that died was named Samuel. The next and >surviving child was named Samuel and is my ancestor. I can not find >reference to either of the sons having Jr. attached to their names. > >Our family has adopted the method of naming: Samuel father, Samuel Jr., >and the subsequent surviving son as Samuel Jr. (No. 2). > >I have lost the link designation of bold font between the father and the >surviving son. It picks up correctly after that. > >My question before I begin big changes in my Legacy records is: is this >problem of linking direct ancestors because of the (No. 2) designation part >of my name entry? > >The (No. 2) entry is in Title suffix. > >Stuart Lease> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
