DAVID N MOTHKOVICH wrote: > > Hi - > It's late at night and I just put in a 14 hour day. Please explain how > this might work for instance with my relatives, Josip Matkovic married > Anna Bakic. Her father Stephen Bakic married Julia Vuksic. > > I'm pretty confused at the moment. > Dave The use of hyphenated surnames , binames, aliases, double surnames et al has been dicusssed in this mailing list in the past. It can be quite complicated. In essence, the surname to left of hyphen was the original surname, while the surname to right was the alias or later identifier. Sometimes these surnames became switched over time ? If you use the online Croatian telephone directory you will note that the hyphenated surnames (if any) are listed first under each surname.