Posted on 09/26/2012 11:40:16 AM PDT by WKB
A Mississippi man has taken his wife's last name after the ACLU complained he was told by state officials that he would need a court order to do so because it was not traditional.
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Not quite that bad, but damn close.............
Maybe the guy in Mississippi's surname is Gay and his wife's surname is Strait.
Obama?
LMFAO! I swear that was the first thing I thought when I read this article.
I didn’t know the ability to legally change your name was a matter that put tradition over law, and to the law it should only be whether the proper paperwork is filed - the name is merely a matter of the person’s choice; their choice, not the choice of “tradition”.
As someone who has looked into their own family’s genealogy, I have learned from friends with Spanish surnames that some of their searches were made easier by ancestors who gave their children names that contained the “surnames” of both parents.
“Wilingastowokowski”
Which means I fish on my side, you fish on your side and no one fishes in the middle!
Whatever.
He should be free to change his surname to whatever he wants.
Some of Hitler’s relatives did the same thing.
I would say that if the kids can't figure that out, they're not ready to get married.
No no no, it’s spelled, “Raymond Luxury Yacht,” but it’s pronounced, “Throat Warbler Mangrove”. </Monty Python>
Nobody ever heard of him before 2006. This was 33 years ago. Had I not already served in the Marines Corps and had college records and all that kind of stuff, I might have gone ahead and used my wife’s last name since hers is easy to spell, pronounce and is somewhat famous.
My last name is on my BC, but the man who is listed as my father is not my father, nor would I ever claim such a person as my father.
I was raised solely by my grandfather, and I went by his last name until I was 14, even though I knew it was not legally mine. I lived in a very small town where everybody knows everybody else so it wasn’t a big deal.
When he died I was sent to live with my mother in another state. From that time on I had to use the legal last name on my BC, that of her first husband.
He was a wife beating, child abusing, too sorry to work good for nothing that would rather live off county relief (we didn’t have welfare in those days) than get an honest job. I am told that he paid someone else to go into the Army instead of him when he was drafted.
The bottom line though is that now that my only child, a daughter, is now married and has a child of her own, that last name through me will now disappear....................
I hope you leave some sort of record of all that for your children’s children’s children’s children. That sounds like a genealogist’s nightmare!
I hope you leave some sort of record of all that for your children’s children’s children’s children. That sounds like a genealogist’s nightmare!
He found record of the names on two successive US Censuses (ummm, censes?) which showed the transition from an utterly unspellable and unpronouncable East European surname to a more (but still ambiguously) pronounceable one from a bit further west.
I have since asked my East European friends how to pronounce the ancestral name and also what it meant. They invariably scratch their heads about the meaning, but they gave me pretty reliable guides to its pronounciation, of which I am the only one in the family capable of reproducing.
So all in all, "Badger" doesn't seem so bad.
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My half sister who lives in Panama City, just down the beach a ways, knows the story, as well as my other sisters in other parts of the country. She is unofficial genealogist for the family, doing the family tree and stuff like that.......
The only thing that we can be sure of is that the wife remains hyphena intacta.
I think the guy’s a poosy for doing it but, there’s no real reason why he shouldn’t be allowed to, nor should there be any law against it.
Geeze, try putting that on a mailing label or in any of those forms that require you put one letter in each of the boxes for your name.
He’s probably had to cut one up and tape more boxes so he can complete the form.
Voting must a bitch too.
his new name must be “eunach”
I am not sure of the laws, but I do know that a very nice girl I actualy dated for a while, married her husband around ten years ago here in Cleveland, OH and he took her last name. He did so because he had an unfortunate last name that he always disliked.
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