I was working at the Univ of Tulsa about 1971 when we encountered a student who had registered with a hyphenated maiden-married name, eg. Susie Jones-Brown. We spent untold hours debating how to put her into our registration system: was she a J or a B???? So, in at least some circles (academia? Oklahoma??) these practices have come very late! In my family tree, I more commonly find the woman's maiden name appearing as a middle name for her sons, eg. James Robley Hill. Elaine
Elaine wrote: >>> I was working at the Univ of Tulsa about 1971 when we encountered a student who had registered with a hyphenated maiden-married name, eg. Susie Jones-Brown. We spent untold hours debating how to put her into our registration system: was she a J or a B???? So, in at least some circles (academia? Oklahoma??) these practices have come very late!<<< _______________ Elaine, Do you remember if your U. of Tulsa student kept her "original" middle name as her middle name, for example, Susie Margaret Jones-Brown? That could be seen as a benefit of a "one generation" hyphenated married name, that I hadn't thought of before. And, do you remember if you indexed her under the first or second of her hyphenated family names? :-) At least by the 1800s and well into the 1900s, one frustration (for me) is that many married women, in newspaper accounts anyway, seem to have lost not only their maiden family name, but also their first and original middle names as well -- for instance, my gg-grandmother Lurana M. Benson became, in news notes, Mrs. J. W. [Joseph W.] Wharton. Dave K
That's why I gave up using my hyphenated name after a few years of toughing it out! <hee hee> The hyphen makes it one name, so she should have been indexed under J. I used Elam-White, but was forever being put under White. So now I just use my maiden name as my middle name and always use both for genealogy and legal purposes. I'm indexed under White now, but my Elam identity is still there! Vickie Elam White ---- Elaine Sunde <elaine@sunde3.com> wrote: > I was working at the Univ of Tulsa about 1971 when we encountered a student who had registered with a hyphenated maiden-married name, eg. Susie Jones-Brown. We spent untold hours debating how to put her into our registration system: was she a J or a B???? So, in at least some circles (academia? Oklahoma??) these practices have come very late! > > In my family tree, I more commonly find the woman's maiden name appearing as a middle name for her sons, eg. James Robley Hill. > > Elaine > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message