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Family Members List
Naming Traditions
Children were often given the names of grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts. A first son, for example, might be named after his father's father; the first daughter after her mother's mother. Subsequent children would probably bear the names of thier uncles and aunts as follows:
1st son = father's father
2nd son = mother's father
3rd son = father
4th son = father's oldest brother
5th son = father's 2nd oldest brother or mother's oldest brother
1st daughter = mother's mother
2nd daughter = father's mother
3rd daughter = mother
4th daughter = mother's oldest sister
5th daughter = mother's 2nd oldest sister or father's oldest sister
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