my grandfather's family...

[politicking.livejournal.com]

A LOT of the names repeat multiple times- some you can tell here, but you can really see it when you see the rest of the family tree. which makes it sometimes really hard when i'm trying to do research on my family lol. but anyway, here are a list of names in his family, on his father's side. these names are from the late 1800s-1920/30s.

his great grandparents:  John & Martha Matilda
their children:
David James (my grandfather's grandfather)
Annie
Margaret
John Jr.
Elizabeth
Martha Matilda (nn Marty)
Andrew
Edna Porter

his grandparents: David James & Martha Matilda (both father & son married Martha Matildas lol!)
their children:
Ellen
John Henry
Edna
David James Jr.
Charles Eugene Hansen
Andrew
Leslie (male, my gf's father)
Margaret
William
Martha Thelma

Comments

[scouty.livejournal.com]

so weird that they gave the same names to their kids e.g. andrew , margaret ^^

it must be so confusing !