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Subject: Re: Dead surnames?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:46:53 GMT


In article <>,
jane lawrence <> wrote:
> AJH wrote:
>
> The name wouldn't have tailed off if I'd insisted my two
> > children took my surname and not their father's, though we did wind
his
> > parents up for a while by saying we'd have one each <g>.
>
> My sister and her husband kept their own names. One son has her
> name. One has his. I have friends who picked a new name when
> they married. The whole family has the same name, but it's not
> the same as any of their relatives.
>
> jane
>

I fought for (over a year) and got my mother's maiden name (my maternal
grandfather's name). I had a heck of a fight with the Penna records
department trying to get my BC for the reason of changing my name, then
the DMV wanted proof that I was using one name or the other for 15
years.

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