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From: figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Changing names
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 03:26:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 03:26:16 1986
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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.
>>We kid her about being a Hudhank, or a Hudkin, or a Hankson but you
>
>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.

Sometimes the children of such marriages will take matters into their
own hands.  Let's face it, Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins-Kelsey-
Gonzales-Barton-Smith doesn't fit onto an SAT form. :-)

I had a friend in college who had a long, nasty, multi-hyphenated
name; what she wound up doing was eventually dropping everything from 
the first hyphen on.

--Lynn
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