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From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Last name
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:27:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: <188.1cb9cd02.2c4d2e22@cs.com>


I have done the same thing as your husband's grandmother, Christine. My
middle name is now Scalise. I could not resist the initials ESP and I gave
the Anne to my daughter. <g> So even with this so called convention, I get
mail to Ms. Scalise-Powell. Or the one case where a gentleman wrote for
research information to Ms. Powell, and then also wrote to Ms. Scalise. But
it should be easier for my descendants to discover my maiden name. Yes, yes,
of course, I will have it written down too!

-- Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 7:53 AM
> To:
> Subject: [APG] Last name
>
>
> In a message dated 7/20/2003 9:57:24 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > [APG] Pet Peeves
> >
>
> Kerry...I am not sure how, if I saw your written name, I would
> know to call
> you Mrs. Sandberg Scott. I think the reason you encounter the
> problem with
> genealogists is that so many women did (and do) use their maiden
> name as a middle
> name. My husband's grandmother always wrote her name as Nelle
> Tarleton Rose
> after marriage, dropping her middle name of Louise and inserting
> her maiden
> name. She would have been totally perplexed if anyone had called
> her "Mrs.
> Tarleton Rose." I don't have a solution - I'm sure it is
> frustrating to you, but I
> think it is logical for someone seeing it in writing would think
> that Scott is
> the surname.
> Christine
> [Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG]
>
>
>
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