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Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:49 pm
by _Joseph
This is the real reason lds-inc and paranoidboyd and the boys don't want gay marriages.
It will make genealogy name finding more difficult.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:08 pm
by _The Nehor
Worried that you were losing your position as the drive-by dumbass?
Don't worry, your position is safe.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:09 pm
by _Jersey Girl
Joseph wrote:This is the real reason lds-inc and paranoidboyd and the boys don't want gay marriages.
It will make genealogy name finding more difficult.
What possible difference would it make to genealogy work if gay folks changed their names? How would it make "name finding" more difficult than when women change their names when they marry?
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:22 pm
by _MsJack
I don't see how this would make names harder to find, either.
But, for the record, my gay uncle and his partner of twenty+ years use both of their last names hyphenated.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:10 pm
by _ajax18
Straight people don't even change their names when they marry these days. I mean, what for, chances are they won't be married long anyway.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:14 pm
by _EAllusion
MsJack wrote:I don't see how this would make names harder to find, either.
But, for the record, my gay uncle and his partner of twenty+ years use both of their last names hyphenated.
I've always wondered what two hyphenated names people do when they have a child. Giving all four names is impractical and it seems unfair to just pick the first of your two hyphenated names. I wonder how that decision gets made. What sounds pleasing to the ear? Paper, rock, scissors tournament? I must know.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:19 pm
by _madeleine
Among the family and acquaintances I know, I don't know any who have. But anyone can change their name to whatever they like, including a unpronounceable symbol
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:29 pm
by _bcspace
It will make genealogy name finding more difficult.
No. But it would reduce the number of lines. Unless of course one was heterosexually married beforehand and had children. In that case, one wouldn't be "gay" in the first place.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:41 pm
by _Some Schmo
The Nehor wrote:Worried that you were losing your position as the drive-by dumbass?
Don't worry, your position is safe.
Sounds like you touched a nerve, Joseph.
Re: Do gay people change their names when they get married?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:29 pm
by _Malcolm
Joseph wrote:This is the real reason lds-inc and paranoidboyd and the boys don't want gay marriages.
It will make genealogy name finding more difficult.
Elton John and his Canadian civil partner David Furnish keep their own names.
Apparently, now that they have a surrogate child, Elton John is listed as Father and David Furnish is listed as Mother on the child's birth certificate???
Now that could cause a headache for future Genealogists.