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Okay, okay, okay, I know I haven’t posted a new round in awhile. So here goes:

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Sign up: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/view.php?id=3798333&board=game
Round 1: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/view.php?id=3799110&board=game
Round 2: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/view.php?id=3800675&board=game

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Gender: Who’s behind in your family? Do you have more girls or more boys? Do a little equalizing and give them enough of that gender to equalize. Since we’re doing a time spread of 7 years this time, you can spread out the births. If you have equal numbers then add at least one boy and one girl, as many as you want, just keep it equal.

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First names: The names of the kids are going to be the name of the grandparents. If you have a boy, the first name should be that of the maternal grandfather, and if you have a girl than the name should be that of the paternal grandmother. Let’s assume that your parent’s (father for girl, mother for boy) parent (same) is exactly 25 years older than them. If Jill is 25, then her father Jack is 50. Subtract 50 years from 2010 and you have the birth year of your grandparent. Now add up the number of letters in the names of the rest of the people in your family (John+Jill+Jenny+Josh=17) and you have the popularity of your grandparent’s name on a ‘100 Top Names’ for your grandparent’s birth year. If you have more than one child of each gender, just go down the same number (in the case of the family above you would end up with 34) and that is number of the grandparent’s middle name and therefore the second child of that gender’s number. Here is a link for the top 100 names in pretty much any year: http://baby-names.emedtv.com/baby-builder.html

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Middle names: Your oldest child is feeling a bit neglected, so you allow him/her to choose her younger sibling’s middle name. It should therefore be a name from a Disney animated movie. This rule applies for all children you have this round.

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Again, complicated, but that’s what makes it fun! Enjoy!