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Originally posted by lurkette
This makes my head swim. When I was doing genealogy research, this tradition made things SO confusing. Anyhow, say there was a guy named Frederick. Frederick has 3 sons. So his 3rd son is named Frederick as well. Now if Frederick II has 3 sons, does that mean that he'd have 2 sons named "Frederick"? his first son (Frederick III, named after his grandfather) and his third son (Frederick IV, named after his dad)?
(wanders off vacantly...)
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pretty much yes....I ran into it many times in the research I've done, of course that was back when people actually adhered to that AND back when having 15 kids was a normal thing for a family