Welcome to Todd Tenney, Elizabeth Revell, Eddie Dowds and Judith Milner who have joined this week, also welcome back to VerDean. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** We are all probably well aware of the naming tradition for the first three children of either sex, but what happens next, or where there has already been a duplication of names ? >From a number of postings on other lists the following seems to be a useful rule of thumb ... Next son - father's eldest brother then - mother's eldest brother - father's 2nd eldest brother - mother's 2nd eldest brother, etc For the girls the sequence starts with ... Next daughter - mother's eldest sister then - father's eldest sister, etc with the proviso that where these relations didn't exist, or duplicated existing names, the others moved up the sequence. One correspondent put up a case for inclusion of the Great Aunts and/or Great Uncles when there were not enough Aunts or Uncles - I'll leave that up to you to include or discard. We are all aware of the pitfalls of the "Abt" entries in the IGI, to my mind there are enough variations from the accepted naming tradition to make going beyond the first five a similar exercise in creative thinking! Feel free to comment on this, or join in and present your own items. Peter Cook [email protected] List owner and Co-host with Barbara < [email protected] > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list. List owner of the SCT-RENFREW and SCT-ARGYLL mailing lists.