Hi Leni,
Re: Your comment about hyphenated names.
First, I agree with you 100%.
As you know, my wife and I adopted 2 children recently. Our new daughter’s name was Amber Nicole Lindsey, at the legal procedings our lawyer wanted to know what name we wanted on her new birth certificate.
We asked her and she told us that she wanted her new name to be Amber Nichole Lindsey Agee, keeping Lindsey as an additional middle name and just adding our last name. We were fine with it.
I made this very clear to our lawyer, that we wanted NO hyphens, further telling him that if the b.c. came back with a hyphen, that we’d be back in court again for another name change and if I found out it was his mistake, that I’d find another lawyer to sue him for the extra expenses.
I fully expected someone in the state (Illinois) government to take it upon themselves to hyphenate it.
Now for another wrinkle in the story. After the paper work was filed, Amber changed her mind and decided that she did not want to keep “Lindsey” after all. We told her that it was too late to change her mind.
To everyone’s delight, the state of Illinois did indeed screw it up and the b.c. came back with Amber Nichole Agee on it, erroneously dropping “Lindsey” giving her exactly the name she wanted (And no hyphens). Joy says hello. Y.T. Ellis
Big old oops! I meant that to be a FReepmail.
No biggie I suppose, I know one of our ship mates who posts his name, address and phone number on his “about page”.
Hint - He’s one of F.R.’s major curmudgeons.