I have an ancestor, Johan Anton Andreasson, ID #G9CJ-L4F, it gives a birthdate of actually 3 differe

User15705706719859366933

I have an ancestor, Johan Anton Andreasson, ID #G9CJ-L4F, it gives a birthdate of actually 3 different dates, 29 March 1875, 29 April 1875 and 29 August 1875 and death 5 November 1878. However, it shows he married in 1903 and had a family.

I felt it must have been one died and they had another son who lived but the birthdays are the same for both. I went to Family Search in Idaho Falls. Bro. DuPuis was just as confused as I am. How can this be. He checked records but was unable to find any more than I have.

Sincerely,

Yvonne Goodnight-Rash

Cindy Hecker

You have 2 Johans. You have a birth and a death date for the Johan, child of the couple. That is one person and the other records are for a Johan and his marriage and family from that marriage. Similar names are so common in Sweden. Make these 2 separate people and move the sources to the correct Johan. They actually do have different birth dates March for the child and April for the adult married Johan. It is simply 2 different people of same name

Arlene Bernice Curley Stigum

@Cindy Hecker​ great reply. There is one thing that does not make sense. How can Johan Anton Andreasson be both the father’s name and the son, when the naming convention in Sweden during the 19th century was to name the children after the father’s first name with the designation of the child’s gender at the end. This would yield a Johan Anton Johansson for the son.

 

Here is a Wikipedia link to explain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_name

Gordon Collett

Sometimes families would adopt a fixed surname from a patronymic that would then follow with the the family from then on. This was more common in cities than in rural areas and sometimes started in the early 1800's.

 

The other possibility is that the names are recorded incorrectly in Family Tree or in an extracted record and just need to be corrected from the original records.

Cindy Hecker

Arlene, I am not saying that these 2 Johans are related at all. 2 separate unrelated people who have the same name, so why are you asking about the naming pattern? I do not see it applies here.

User15705706719859366933

You are not looking at the names: the father's name is Andreas Andreasson and the son's name is Johan Anton (not Johansson, you don't take the son's name and give him a last name from his first name) you take the first name of the father, Andreas to make his last name, Johan Anton Andreasson. That wasn't even the question.

Arlene Bernice Curley Stigum

Apparently I misunderstood your phrase, “child of the couple”, to mean that you were seeing a father and a son.