As a researcher said to me once "You have to kill them off to prove that they died". This meant that you had to look for the death record first!! I just LOVE killing my rellies off now!! Diane On 02/06/2012 23:17, Jane wrote: > Hi Gerald& others, > > Your comment about watching baptisms closely hit the mark with me. I've > found many trees on Ancestry& other sites where this double naming has > happened and has been either missed as two (or more) children, or had > the children confused with each other. These days, as a matter of > course, if I find what appears to be a duplicate baptism - ie, same name > baptised on different dates for what appears to be the same parents - I > start checking the deaths to see if the earlier child/children died. > With so much sharing of family research available on the web, it's easy > to confuse family members when one double naming occurs, particularly if > a death record has been overlooked. > > I do find it interesting, though, that so many have duplicate children's > names where the children all survived! My stepfather was the 14th of 19 > children (one father, two mothers), and he always expressed his father's > pride in never repeating a name - first or middle - amongst them. In > researching his family, I did find one child who died, and his first > name reused with a different middle name. > > Interesting discussion! Regards, > > Jane Eliza (did someone mention my name?!) > researching Ruse, Allbrow, Fulcher, Arnold, Last, Lofts, Rayner, Ellis, > Thornton& maybe Fairlam in Suffolk. > > > On 3/06/2012 3:46 AM, Townsends wrote: >> Hi Anne and other posters >> I have the same thing happening in my Suffolk Welham family. One has to watch baptisms quite closely and try and get all family members to ensure they are following same person. I had one male child who lived to be 12 and then died and the next son was given his name and survived to an old age. If I had not captured all of the family baptisms I could have mistakenly used the first son's baptism as the one for the second son who was the survivor. >> >> Gerald Townsend >> Vancouver, British Columbia Canada >> Searching for Suffolk: Welham, Josselyn/Joslin, Green, Knights, Girt, Knock, Garwood, Downing, Grimwood, Snell, Clarke, Lambert, Wallage, Gould >> > > ------------------------------- > 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 >