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Not sure if my question correct way to describe on one half of my maternal side the male line upwards goes back but also I find many that had a double sometimes a triple surname. In the list of surnames it mentions note proceeded on with one surname.
Yes I know of the spanish and latin american custom of double surnames you get surname from father and from mother.
Is more like when people divorce and they drop the marriage surname. Use only maiden name.
Is a variety of nationalities in many countries. The more countries I search the more I find and still busy searching.
Yes I know of the spanish and latin american custom of double surnames you get surname from father and from mother.
Is more like when people divorce and they drop the marriage surname. Use only maiden name.
Is a variety of nationalities in many countries. The more countries I search the more I find and still busy searching.
It was typical in Italy for women to retain their maiden name, but the children took their father's name only.
It's just cultural. Just like in Norway and Sweden they would put father's name + dotter or son. It causes a ton of confusion for us Americans who are used to wife taking husband's name and kids having dad's name. There's women in education and academia who retain their maiden names. There are women who maintain their maiden name because they're the last child in a family line. There are kids that get adopted and get their new family's name . It just depends on the situation.
And to further complicate things, you have scenarios like my oldest son who is seriously considering changing his last name to that of my father - because my brothers aren't going to have sons so he doesn't want that name to die out - plus he was much closer to my dad (his granddad) than he was to his own father.
But it's a weird, Germanic last name so I'm not really encouraging him to do that!
And to further complicate things, you have scenarios like my oldest son who is seriously considering changing his last name to that of my father - because my brothers aren't going to have sons so he doesn't want that name to die out - plus he was much closer to my dad (his granddad) than he was to his own father.
But it's a weird, Germanic last name so I'm not really encouraging him to do that!
My son was going to do the same thing for the same reasons but didn't and I don't recall why. Now that I'm into doing trees and doing DNA I'm glad he didn't because it may confuse things for whoever does genealogy down the line and even if he changed his last name; his Y-DNA will still show his Scottish last name.
Well some english families use double names.Say for example John Smith-Burns(a made up name) or the late Queen Mother of england , who was born Elizabeth Bowes Lyon. (Help me here english folk on that one) So you son could do that if he wished. Kathryn Aragon, so what is the weird germanic last name your son was considering? I have some cousins named von Lilienschild. It means of lily shield in german.They took their last name from their coat of arms. Now my dad when he attended Boys Technical High School in Milwaukee back in the 1930s, had a teacher named Mr.Grosskumpf.I might be misspelling the last part, but my dad said it meant the teacher was Mr.Bighead in german My dad said germanic surnames
can be very descriptive, especially of psyhical characteristics. In the district I work for ,we have an O.G.Wiederstein.
Nevwer forget the Kodak copier salesman laughing at that one, since he was german himself. It means a stone penis or wieder. This is not a joke. So I guess if you know or understand german, you may have been right to discourage your son from using it. But other countries have weird or odd names too.
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