Section 5 of 6
Names
What people were called afterwards, and who decided.
Entries in this section3 entries
- 5.1Who changed, and who did notName change on marriage is a custom, not a universal, and several European traditions never adopted it at all.
- 5.2The two surnamesSystems that carry a name from each parent, and what that does to a family record.
- 5.3Tracing a woman through the recordsWhy the record thins at exactly the point the name changes.
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