Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews
From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Changing names
Message-ID: <428@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 14:24:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.428
Posted: Wed Oct  8 14:24:27 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 04:10:27 EDT
References: <554@rosevax.UUCP> <1953@mtgzy.UUCP> <2397@ihlpg.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 45
Xref: watmath soc.women:291 soc.singles:418

In article <2750@cae780.UUCP> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>... the
>Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins-Kelsey-Gonzales-Barton-Smith family's 
>children could look forward to seeing THEIR grandchildren's names ...

      There's been a bit more discussion on this, so I
thought I'd reiterate my favourite solution for the
new.netters (I believe this came out of discussions with
Jym "Peace-symbol" Dyer).

Ms. Troublefield-Gordon \__ Ms. Troublefield-Hankin \
Mr. Hudson-Hankin       /   (their daughter)         \__ M*. Troublefield-Smith
                                                     /   (their offspring)
Ms. Kelsey-Gonzales     \__ Mr. Kelsey-Smith        /
Mr. Barton-Smith        /   (their son)

      ... that is, the first part of your name is the first
part of your mother's name, and the second part is the
second part of your father's. Extrapolate this through a
few generations and you'll see that the second part works
like a patrilineal name, passed down through all-male
lines, the same way as our standard last name works.  The
first part works in exactly the same way for all-female
lines, thus working like a matrilineal name.

      So, if this had been done since the adoption of last
names, everyone would have in their names a record of the
names of their father, father's father, etc., and mother,
mother's mother, etc., back into the deeps of time.

      You can pretend that this really happened by tracing
your roots back to find out the earliest name you can find
in your matrilineal line, and then changing your name to
<that>-<your current last name>.  For example, my mother's
mother's mother's mother's last name was Nelson, so I've
been thinking about changing my last name to Nelson-Andrews.

      One alternative is that when you get married, you
both change your names to the names your children will
have.  E.g. when Ms. T-G and Mr. H-H above get married,
they change their names to Ms. and Mr. T-H.

--Jamie.
...!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews
"The candy-coloured clown they call the sandman"