In a message dated 4/5/01 7:03:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, VAFRANKL-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > What name is abbreviated Jno? I found this on the census for one of my > relatives. I thought it was Jr. but he wasn't a Jr.>> > I think Jno is just a standard written abbreviation for John; I've seen it lots of times in old census and court records. It's just a kind of shorthand for the writer, like Abm for Abraham and Saml for Samuel and Wm for William. Now, why they used Jno instead of just Jn is beyond me. KAren Worley