This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10117.1 Message Board Post: Patsy The following is the traditional Scots naming pattern. First son named after his paternal grandfather, second son after his maternal grandfather, third son after his father. First daughter after her maternal grandmother, second daughter after her paternal grandmother, third daughter after her mother. Of course not every family followed tradition.