"John Malone" wrote: >Can anyone tell me what name the abbreviation "Jno." stands for? >[...] a man whose name appears as "Jno" or "Jnt" or "Jny" > in the Kildare parish baptisimal record entries for >his various children. Yet according to records in the FamilySearch.org IGI >data for his daughters' marriages, his name was Jeremiah. How could Jno be >short for Jeremiah?? (You may be dealing with transcription errors.) Jno. is John. See http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/x-prop.html for examples of abbreviations for (among others) John and Jonathan (nothing for Jeremiah). See also http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/registers/registers/realnames.htm http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/realnames.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbreviations_for_names