Tat You are so right when you say there is no custom for middle names in Croatia while I was there in Sept. we were discussing names with the family and when I said my name was Donna Marie one of the cousins said you have two names you must be rich. until then I did not realize that there was no middle names used there and my grandmother must have added a middle name to my mother after coming here. Donna

The only use of middle names that I have found in old church records appeared to be those living in "the manor house"... so you must be rich :) Robert TACODMK@aol.com wrote: Tat You are so right when you say there is no custom for middle names in Croatia while I was there in Sept. we were discussing names with the family and when I said my name was Donna Marie one of the cousins said you have two names you must be rich. until then I did not realize that there was no middle names used there and my grandmother must have added a middle name to my mother after coming here. Donna ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts", Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I was born of an American Navy man and a Croatian mother, baptized in the Catholic Church, in Split. This was in 1920 and given the nameS Ella Anna Marie. Ella in Michigan