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From: sandman@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Sandman)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Changing names
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 20:11:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 20:11:05 1986
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Reply-To: sandman@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Dominick Galang)
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In article <2750@cae780.UUCP> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>In article <730@ur-tut.UUCP> huds@ur-tut.UUCP (Andrew Hudson) writes:
>>A few years ago when my sister got married she decided neither to take
>>her spouse's last name nor keep her own but to hyphenate the two.
>>	[...]
>>keep the lineage alive!  So now she goes by Hudson-Hankins.
>
>That always struck me a short-sighted.  My spouse and I could have become
>Troublefield-Gordons, then the children from the families could marry to
>form Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins.  In the meantime, the offspring of
>the Barton-Smiths and Kelsey_Gonzales (former co-workers) could have married,
>and eventually, the 
>Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins-Kelsey-Gonzales-Barton-Smith family's 
>children could look forward to seeing THEIR grandchildren's names ...
>
>If you aren't both comfortable with one of the existing names, pick a new
>one, don't combine the existing ones.
>

The Filipinos (at least my family) has been following a pretty simple
tradition.  The wife keeps her own maiden name and passes it down to
her children.  So my mumsy is formally: Maria Loreto Cabangnon Galang.
When my sister marries Mr. Kennedy (Boston joke :-) she will become
simply Mrs. Gigi Galang Kennedy.  I kinda like it.  After all, the
purpose isn't to keep the entire family tree.  Isn't it supposed to
simply keep some individuality from your spouse and his/her family?
           _ 
Puertorricano (Puerto Rican) friends do the same thing only in reverse
the order.  My roommate's name on the books is Mr. James-Bernat but
he's referred to as Mr. James (his father's name).  They probably stole
the idea from us :-) 

			-- Dominick M. Cabangnon Galang

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