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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6540544, member: 110350&quot;]Yes, especially in groups like mine, in which one always named one&#039;s first male and female child (and usually subsequent children) after direct ancestors, but never after a living one. And with the husband and wife usually taking turns on which side the ancestor whose name was being used came from. I have, more than once, been able to apply those rules to make educated guesses -- which later proved correct -- about the otherwise unknown names of particular ancestors of mine, particularly women, whose given names were recorded much less frequently then men&#039;s.&nbsp; For example, once I discovered that one of my 3rd-great-grandmothers and her two siblings all named their first daughters &quot;Hina,&quot; it wasn&#039;t hard to figure out that that must have been the first name of their deceased mother, my 4th great-grandmother -- who, I already knew, was deceased before any of those daughters were born. Years later, I found a document with her name on it, and it turned out that my guess was correct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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