WHAT'S IN A NAME

 When you are engrossed in finding family members, do you ever run into several family members with the same name?

I was doing research on one of my great, great uncles, when I did a search in Ancestry, I received eleven results of the same name. As I search, I noticed that they were all members of my family, but not the one that I was looking for. So, what do you do? These cues my help.

• Check to see if they are Juniors. Not all parents list sons as Juniors. (To keep you from listing the wrong family members together this is an important step. Even if the parents did not list them as such, you need to.)
• Pay close attention to birthdays. This will be the key to you keeping different section of your family separated.
• Middle names will help you keep the right person with the right family.
• How far back does the name go. Remember if they come from al large family, and that family had for example, twelve children, you might see several sisters and brothers using a sibling name more than one time. I give you an example, I had a family member that was born in 1860's, he had six brothers and six sisters, each of these siblings had kids and out of the eleven siblings, there were eleven children with that name.)
• SO, WHAT'S IN A NAME.......

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