entertainer@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoWhat do you think of generational suffixes (Jr., II, III, etc.)?message-squaremessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you think of generational suffixes (Jr., II, III, etc.)?entertainer@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square49linkfedilinkfile-text
I’m a “John Smith IV”. My son, due in September, will be a “John Smith V”. Personally, I’m a huge fan of this tradition.
minus-squareStabbitha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoYou guys ever do any genealogy? There are so many places and times in history where women’s names simply weren’t recorded. Census records from the 1800s in the US are like, “John Smith, wife, 6 children 3 male 3 female”.
minus-squareLadyButterflyshe/her@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoUnsurprising… why would they record his property?
You guys ever do any genealogy? There are so many places and times in history where women’s names simply weren’t recorded. Census records from the 1800s in the US are like, “John Smith, wife, 6 children 3 male 3 female”.
Unsurprising… why would they record his property?