In a message dated 7/7/02 7:36:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, huggs@citynet.net writes: > Hi Instead of losing the name why not have a family member take the name for > their own. Often in the old days a son, son in law or daughter took the > name to carry on the line. This sounds like a good way for the name to > continue with the family bloodline remaining intact. Hugs Betty in WV > That is an excellent idea, Betty. I wish I'd done that myself.... My husband's family has used family names as first, middle and last names since...I guess the beginning of time! One or two of my family members have names using mother's maiden name (or grandmothers) for middle names. Now that I'm a grandmother and a genealogy buff...I see the importance of this... but haven't been able to convince my children of it. Too bad...