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From: "MScheffler" <>
Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Junior or II
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 21:12:06 -0400
References: <20010801225044.15720.cpmta@c009.snv.cp.net>

The "rules" we follow today may not have been the ones used in the
first 150 or so years of our country, where frequently a "jr" became a
"sr" . While many times these denoted father-son relationships, this
apparently was not always the case. I have read that in some
circumstances junior and senior denoted younger and older of the same
name in a community, not necessarily referring to a father-son
relationship. In fact the younger and older of the same name designated
jurior and senior need not have been related at all, or they might be
uncle and nephew, or yet some other relationship. As with other issues
in genealogy, we always need to be careful how we interpret designations
in the past that today may have very precise meanings.

Margaret Scheffler

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