This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5538/CEB.2ACEB/3.1.1 Message Board Post: Actually, my mother is Patricia. She never married, and therefore I took her maiden name when born. Neither of my uncles, Al III and John (Jack), have children. The only way the name has been kept is because my older brother, Brian, also has Anseman. He passed it to his two children, Jakob and Mia.