In a message dated 1/7/99 9:39:00 PM, norie@localaccess.com wrote: << The very next message was in answer to his message and began, "Dear Carol". BTW, LEE is my middle name, me and Marilyn only have our first name in common, believe me!>> Oh, I can relate to this. My first name is MARION, and for some reason, I had always hated it, and didn't realize until a relatively short time ago that my family was engaged in those old naming patterns, and I was named for my grandmother's father's SURNAME. I became aware of it when I was doing family groups on my maternal ancestors, and saw three or four cousins in each generation with MARION as a part of their names. They didn't use them as their given names, either! It could have been worse. I could have been FRANCIS MARION. M. Wayne Montgomery