I came back to this thread to ask the exact same question. I must be getting old!
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They also place their first name after the surname e.g. BROWN Susan instead of Susan Brown.
Val
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Hmmm, russians do it both ways. It depends on how much official the situation is...
Is it an acceptable reason for wanting to get a new job that I've been with the same company for more than a decade and it's awkward when someone with whom I had interactions at some point in time now runs into me and goes "hi I.S., how are you?" and I can't always immediately remember their names? 
Inconceivable!I would rather say it is more an illustration of the point you made 3 posts above
FredVegrox
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I agree about names being given in weird ways. I have my own question, why are we not using maternal lineage names? There is a whole side of all our relations that we are not connected by name with, for not wanting mothers to pass on a name of inheritance. I don't think that is justified, I did take on a maternal lineage name myself, based on a maternal ancestor, that is, going back through mothers, in this case five mothers ago.
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@FredVegrox Lately I've been seriously thinking about changing my middle name to my mother's maiden surname. This could conceivably get complicated, depending on how far back I want to go-or even COULD go: Alex Haley did a great job of tracing his ancestry in "Roots", but eventually I'd get to a point where I couldn't go back any further. But since both my mother and maternal grandmother were okay with their last name, I'd be okay with using it.
FredVegrox
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I am serious about this, there could be such change to use of maternal lineage names, it would be sensible with being connected by name with more who we are related to by lineage. But besides myself taking the name of a maternal ancestor legally, I don't see there is a movement now for this, with any others doing that. There is call for this. Even Tom's approach is a good step in that direction. And it is mothers, not myself, who would be enabled from this to pass on their name, biologically based, that can continue to further descendants. Males already have paternal lineage names they pass on anyway, with this doing something women don't get to do. So I have a group on Facebook to promote it, but I see more must happen, and it seems to be beyond me. What is wrong for this to not be a movement?
