Ancestry/Genealogy

Three of the boys, Joe, Jim, and John each had 8-12 kids each. And each had a daughter named Elizabeth (just to add to the confursion, they also had a sister named Elizabeth and John married an Elizabeth) and each had a sons named James and Joseph. This resulted in the cousins being known as Lizzie-Joe, Lizzie-Jim, and Lizzie-John; same for the boys Jimmy-Joe, Jimmy-John, Jimmy-Jim (seriously, at least it wasn't his legal name), etc.

Some of the sisters of Joe, Jim, and John also had Elizabeths, Jims, Joes & Johns but at least those kids all had different last names and they showed more variety with the girls' names (though Lucy was also very popular).

By the time my great-great grandfather died, he had 65 grandchildren. That's a lot of kids to name, but you'd think they could have been a bit more original rather than using the same names again and again.