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From: ecs@inuxd.UUCP (Eileen Schwab)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.kids
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:16:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 14:16:43 1984
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John Hobson suggested one solution to the problem of surnames
based upon a custom in Iceland.  If Lars and Olga have two children,
the boy would have the surname "Larsson" and the girl would have
the name "Larsdottir".  This is just as bad as the current practice.
Why are they the children of 'Lars', and not "Olgason" or "Olgadottir"?

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P.S. My husband and I decided that if we had any children, they would
have his name.  He is the last 'Nusbaum' in his family whereas I have
three brothers who might pass on the name 'Schwab' to their children.

Interestingly, his mother also kept her given name (for business 
reasons) when she married. Yet she objected to my not changing my
name.   All her children were given the name 'Nusbaum'.