Genealogy Chat

This is most probably a daft question but if the law changed and when you married the husband took the wifes name would it work , I suppose genes wouldn't be passed on right would they ?

Surely only the name would change, it wouldn't affect the genes.
As Shakespeare once said " What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

As many of us have found, the father's name is not always passed on. ;-)

In these days of promiscuity even the father's genes are sometimes not passed on either, LOL.

Kath. x

LOL Kathleen..........
indeed you have a way,


with words!

I have a rellie who abandond his fathers name, and took on his mothers maiden name......

Bob

The Iroquois people in North America had a matriarchal society. Women ruled everything and descent was traced through the mother not the father. When a couple married the groom went to live with the bride's family and became a member of her clan.

LOL Kathleen

My Mum always said " You can be mostly sure of the mother and your tree should be traced this way"

Cheers
:-)

I once had a secretary who insisted that her husband to be changed his surname to hers before she would marry him. That should prove a challenge for future generations of family historians attempting to trace their male line.

One of my mam's little rhymes was:-

Mummy's baby..........Daddy's - maybe!!

Kath. x

Worked with a chap who changed his name to his wifes, she refused to change her surname to Pratt and as she was an only child and he had quite a few siblings it meant that her surname did not die out.

Sadly his wife's surname was the same as his first name, so he became Thomas Thomas (name changed) but you get the idea :-)

But what about dna and all that would that still work properly?

DNA is part of the chemistry of the body, so it doesn't matter what you're called, you still pass it on to your children.