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Old 03-26-2008, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by alum View Post
Technically that is correct that the everybody moves up a number when someone in the lineage dies. However, I knew a Thornton Waldo Burgess V who was the great-great-grandson of the children's author with the same name. The person I knew should have been III as both the great-great and the greatgrandfather were deceased but everybody kept their numerals to honor the original TWB.
Hence the famous person exception.
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