Jackie If you go to this web page and read under inheritance customs and under Domazet it will give you an explanation on this. This is a very good web page to keep handy if you havent been to it before. http://www.croatia-in-english.com/ Regards Mary Lawrie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie (nee Adamowicz)" <wordsmith@att.net> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: [CROATIA-L] a common practice? > Greetings, > I quizzed my grandmother a little yesterday to see if she could remember > anything she hadn't already told me about her parents from Croatia. She > told me that her father had once told her that his father had taken the > wife's surname at their marriage because she had come from a more affluent > family than his. It seems to make sense since my great-grandfather listed > his parents with the same surname on his social security application, and > there is a note beside his mother's name that says "mother's name same > before marriage." > > Has anyone ever run into this sort of thing before? > > Thank you, > Jackie > Researching: > ~~~~~~~Poland~~~~~~~ > ADAMOWICZ - BANASZEK - BURDA > CHOJNACKI / HOJNACKI > MIKULSKI / MIKOLSKY > CIEBIEN~ - MAZIK - KROL / KRUL > ~~~~~~~Croatia~~~~~~~ > OCVIRAK / OCVIRK - SNEPERGER >