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From: "O. Robinson" <>
Subject: Re: Your Mother's name.
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:46:58 +0100
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I like the idea that one of the children (eldest daughter maybe?) takes
her mother's maiden name as her middle name; eldest son takes father's
mother's maiden name, etc. etc. Until about 1900 in my family tree this
system has been invaluable in giving me clues about mothers' names..
Unfortunately it's got to the stage where I don't even have a middle
name, let alone a family one!

Olivia



Bev Edmonds wrote:
>
> Hear, Hear,
>
> This is an area that really bugs me, it is so easy to follow the fathers
> name but to try and follow a woman's name is near impossible. There should
> be a rule brought in by Law that requires a "Maiden Name" on every form that
> is filled in. Plus the addition of d/o so and so. I know that quite a few
> BDM'S that are listed in our daily newspapers have a maiden name but not
> near enough at the moment.
>
> Cheers
> Bev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Date: Wednesday, 16 May 2001 12:57
> Subject: Your Mothers name.
>
> This was sent to me via. the South Africa Rootsweb list and I feel a lot of
> people will enjoy reading it.
>
> Is your Mothers maiden name on her headstone?
> Does anyone but you know who that dear person was ?
> Let's all go into our cemeteries and identify as many of the women as we
> can while we can and record them in as many places as we can.
> Let's give a name to our Mother's, Sisters, Aunts and Grandmothers while
> we
> can.
> Let's also, from this time forward, put a maiden name on the headstone of
> all our women.
> They loved their people. They will love you for seeing that their identity
> is
> not lost.
> I hope that you all think about it and help to spread the word to give our
> women their names.
>
> Thankyou for reading this.
>
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