Morgan, Bruce GEIBEL covers this in his book "History of the GEIBEL Families." B, M, D records he found in St. Georges Church in Limburg are for each individual. Bruce said a name like "Johannes" can be the 1st name for every boy in a family, followed by the name they were called, like George or Peter. "Johannes George" for 1st son, "Johannes Peter" for 2nd son, etc. The author explains that the middle names (the name the person was known by) followed their own specific naming pattern- 1st son named after father's father, 2nd son named after father, 3rd son named after mother's father. This is not only interesting, but I have found it potentially useful in finding who the Grandparents were of a large family.- Livy On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Morgan Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was reading an article on naming patterns that some Germans followed. I > should have thought to ask this earlier. When you did have Germans that > followed naming patterns, had that "Saint" first name and then the middle > was the name they were called by, when it came to BMD records, how were > their names written? Did BMD records list the person by both names or by the > name they were called? Many thanks. > > > > Morgan > > > > > > > > > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Livy Revits wrote: > Morgan, > > Bruce GEIBEL covers this in his book "History of the GEIBEL Families." > B, M, D records he found in St. Georges Church in Limburg are for each > individual. <snip> > The author explains that the middle names (the name the person was known by) > followed their own specific naming pattern- > 1st son named after father's father, 2nd son named after father, 3rd son > named after mother's father. I have found that naming pattern to NOT be true in many of my families. So please use it only as a guide -- it may or may not always hold true in the families you are researching! Mona -- Mona Houser [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monajo/