<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.6058" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>And, as someone else has pointed out, we need to keep in mind that most of this discussion has been about how names were recorded in records as opposed to legal names used by a family.  We are usually seeing only what the clerk wrote down. The individual or the family may or may not have used the Sr and Jr appellations. For all the reasons cited by others, be careful about assuming relationships based of Sr and Jr.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/8/2011 1:13:40 P.M. Central Standard Time, hooperdebbie@hotmail.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Tahoma color=#000000 size=2>If I may jump in here...  At IGHR last year Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck mentioned in his Intermediate Genealogy class that, in an area with two men of the same name, the elder would be called "Sr." while the younger would be referred to as "Jr."  As previously mentioned, they were not necessarily father and son.  In fact, there may be no relationship at all. <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Debbie Hooper</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>> JFonkert wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >>>My understanding is that Jr and Sr are not even necessarily son and <BR>> >>>father.<BR>> >>>If there were two men of the same name in a locale, one might be known<BR>> >>> as Sr. and one as Jr. based on their ages. They might be cousins<BR>> >>>or something else.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>><BR></DIV>=</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=2 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Jay Fonkert, CG<BR><A href="http://fourgenerationsgenealogy.blogspot.com/">http://fourgenerationsgenealogy.blogspot.com/</A><BR>Saint Paul, MN<BR><BR>Director, Association of Professional Genealogists<BR>(</FONT><FONT lang=2 face=Arial color=#000000 size=1 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="8">professional profile at <A href="http://www.apgen.org)/">www.apgen.org)</A></FONT><FONT lang=2 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR>Member, Genealogical Speakers Guild<BR></FONT><FONT lang=2 face=Arial color=#000000 size=1 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="8">(professional profile at <A href="http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org/)">http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org/)</A><U><BR></FONT><FONT lang=2 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></U>Member, International Society of Family History Writers and Editors <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=2 face=Arial color=#000000 size=1 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="8">CG (Certified Genealogist) is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations.</FONT><FONT lang=2 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>