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From: dailey@cornell.UUCP (John Dailey)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes a case history
Message-ID: <163@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 09:48:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 09:48:36 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1060@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) writes:
>Exactly this problem comes up in Spain and some Latin American
>countries.  Well, it isn't hyphenation, but compounding with
>`y' and `de'.  They can reach four surnames, but then limit
>the expansion.  I don't know exactly how the pruning is done when
>it gets longer.
>-- 
Actually, in Spain (and I assume in Latin America) the wife keeps her maiden
name when she gets married and the children have two legal last names. The
first last name and the one used most of the time, except on legal documents,
(where both last names are required) is the husband's first - last name. The 
second last name of the child is the wife's first last name( her father's name).
In Spain only the two last names are required, but most could tell you more
of them. My wife can easily list at least ten. This is limited only by
memory and/or interest. The list of names is composed as follows:
father's name, mother's name, father's mother's name (paternal grandmother), 
mother's mother's name (maternal grandmother),etc. back through
the generations, which is a convenient way of recalling one's family
tree and remembering one's ancestors. I, for example, have no idea
who my great grandmother was. Oh, the 'y' is optional and rarely used except
in some names where it is really part of the name. None of my Spanish friends
use it.

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