In a message dated 4/21/2005 2:55:28 PM Central Standard Time, delins1@earthlink.net writes: > Most of my family lines (Protestants) from NC had, by ca 1830's, stopped > naming most of their children after relatives. I've completed extensive > lines on most of my families and find that the naming patterns that so many > people think to be prevalent in some families just weren't applicable to > most of my southern family lines. In my family lines if there were 7-9 kids > in a family, only one or two of them might be named after a relative. > Definitely NOT true in my family. My grandparents married in 1900 and named ALL of their 14 children for relatives.