Or the child who died young was named after the father and, since having children carry on family given names seemed important, the next son/daughter was also named after the parent. That's what happened in my great grandfather's family. The Williams went on for generations until my brother and I had daughters and no sons and broke the mold. I had no desire to name a daughter after myself. It caused confusion sometimes when I was growing up. Even worse is my mother's line where almost every descendant has a Robert and a John and it's almost impossible to remember which one belongs to which family. My husband's family has the same problem but I will likely not have enough years left to start researching his family.
I need to come up with some kind of special ID numbers to keep all the Roberts, the Johns, etc., straight, the way one relative has done it. >________________________________ > From: mbstx <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:09 PM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Child's name re-used by same parents. > >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 > > > > > 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
