Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!akgua!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!marla From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.social Subject: Re: Naming - letting the kids choose their own names Message-ID: <835@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 19:37:14 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.835 Posted: Thu Feb 16 19:37:14 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 05:39:17 EST References: <3883@gatech.UUCP>, <929@pegasus.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle Lines: 14 [] In response to Avi's article about naming their children after relatives, in my household, I am also Jewish, all the children are named after someone who has died. This is done by giving them the same initials, NOT the same name. I was named Marla Susan, Marla after my father's mother Molly, and Susan after both grandfathers - Sam. The reason this was done, as I had it explained to me, was to remind me, and others of those who had died, and in some small way keep their memory alive. I intend to name my first child in honor of my father Arthur, who died when I was 16. Marla S. Baer ssc-vax!marla