Hi Rwalker I think you are fully correct in so far as the name creation is concerned. I'll answer your questions one by one. But, some five years back Swiss legislation changed, and now: the family's name is the surname of the husband (i.e. "Tresch") and the double name can be used (i.e. Tresch-Baumann) by either husband or wife. But, however, Rosa could decide to "keep" her family name: Rosa Baumann Tresch (any hyphen to be omitted in the last case, as to distinguish). It is discussed wheter it should be possible to give the children either of the surnames of wive or husband. I'm not quite sure whether all kids are the supposed to have the same surname. If not... future family searchers working on Switzerland will have a hard job to do, at least regarding surnames! Regards Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "rwalker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:31 PM Subject: [SWITZ] Name procedure in Switz > Hello List: > I am trying to understand the following about names and marriages and > children: > Example: > > Johann Tresch marries Rosa Baumann > They then hyphenate the name to Tresch-Baumann CORRECT, but the official family name is TRESCH > Question: are the children known as Tresch-Baumann? or just by > Tresch? Just TRESCH! > for instance- Clara Tresch-Baumann. NO > Then when Clara marries Josef Steiner, she becomes Clara > Stiner-Tresch. CORRECT! > Correct? > I am having trouble keeping this all straight when I do charts. Has > anyone else had problems with this? > > Should I just leave out all the hyphenated parts and keep the woman with > her birth last name? I definitely suggest to do so. And the children with the father's last name? Yes, if not explicitly otherwise specified. > > I have probably answered my own question. YOU DID! > Thanks, > "rwalker" > > > > ==== SWITZERLAND Mailing List ==== > Resource Site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~chewgw > >