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Question: Did your mother keep or change her name when she got married?
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keep
 
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change
 
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hyphenate
 
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other
 
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my parents were never married
 
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« on: August 16, 2014, 09:12:03 PM »

Option 2, though I am under the impression that this forum has a disproportionate number of people having mothers who kept their name.
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2014, 09:16:11 PM »

She changed her name.
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2014, 09:24:09 PM »

Change, like a normal American.
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2014, 09:47:51 PM »

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2014, 10:00:13 PM »

Changed.
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2014, 10:20:38 PM »

Changed (normal).

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.

I didn't know that.  Interesting, and weird.  But then I've never understood any non-Anglophone naming customs.
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2014, 10:24:42 PM »

She changed her name when she married my father, and she hyphenated with her new husband's name when she re-married many many years after dad died.

Then when she divorced him, she went back to her first married name.
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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2014, 10:30:33 PM »

My mother changed her name, but that was in 1957. My wife kept hers when we married in 1988. My children have my wife's middle name and my last name. My wife's middle name was her mother's family name so it created a parallel matrilineal series to the patrilineal last name.
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2014, 10:36:58 PM »

I voted 'other'. My mother kept her maiden name when she was married (and that was the name she had when I was born, though I inherited only my father's last name), but she ended up changing her last name to my father's six years later (six years after their marriage, that is) at the same time as she Anglicized her first and middle names, since my father's last name was on balance easier for Americans.
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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2014, 10:41:20 PM »

Hyphenate.
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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2014, 10:58:16 PM »

Change (normal)
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« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2014, 11:01:50 PM »

She changed it.
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« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2014, 11:08:31 PM »

She hyphenated it, I think having already accomplished work in her field before marrying being part of the impetus for that.
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« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2014, 11:10:48 PM »

Keep

No problem with this tradition, but it's more widespread than I'd expect considering it's basically pointless.
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« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2014, 11:16:22 PM »

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.

How did they stop that?
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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2014, 11:37:17 PM »

My mother changed her name (thrice actually) when she married, as did my wife.
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2014, 11:40:45 PM »

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.

How did they stop that?

It's in fact in 1981, not 1999.
It was during a reform of family law, which gave married women the right to own property(!), among other things. Before the reform, you were taking automatically the name of your husband unless you filled special forms (let's note than in Canada, provinces take care of vital records, including names). They removed that during the reform because they thought it was violating gender equality and violating the principe than names shouldn't change without a good reason, to simplify things for everyone. It wasn't retroactive, through. Some women still decided to do so after that, but it wasn't recognized by any administration and you couldn't get any service under that name. It's pretty much dead, now.
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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2014, 12:46:18 AM »

She kept using her maiden name for the first 5 years or so of their marriage and then changed it to my dad's last name due to a clerical error: when she applied to renew her passport, somehow they ended up putting my dad's last name on it and so she started using my dad's last name because she was afraid she'd get in trouble for having different names on different IDs.
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« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2014, 05:02:20 AM »

     My parents never married. As my father has been deceased since prior to my birth, I use my mother's last name.
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« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2014, 06:34:34 AM »

I'm not really sure, tbh. She sometimes uses one name, sometimes the other. I think there's still her original name on her ID though.
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« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2014, 07:33:26 AM »

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.

How did they stop that?

It's in fact in 1981, not 1999.
It was during a reform of family law, which gave married women the right to own property(!), among other things. Before the reform, you were taking automatically the name of your husband unless you filled special forms (let's note than in Canada, provinces take care of vital records, including names). They removed that during the reform because they thought it was violating gender equality and violating the principe than names shouldn't change without a good reason, to simplify things for everyone. It wasn't retroactive, through. Some women still decided to do so after that, but it wasn't recognized by any administration and you couldn't get any service under that name. It's pretty much dead, now.

Did the Anglos put up a fuss? Around here not changing your name is seen as a "French thing" to do.
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« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2014, 07:38:19 AM »

Changed it.

Almost no woman back in the old days kept their birth name or used a double-name.
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« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2014, 07:43:33 AM »

Change Kept, like a normal American Ethiopian.

Although the fact that Quebec prohibits women from taking their husband's names seems absolutely insane.
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« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2014, 07:50:56 AM »

I woke up this morning thinking, "God, I need another reason to dislike Quebec" and then this thread came along.
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« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2014, 09:59:00 AM »

They are not married and, thankfully, that's not possible anymore to change names after marriage in Quebec since 1999.

How did they stop that?

It's in fact in 1981, not 1999.
It was during a reform of family law, which gave married women the right to own property(!), among other things. Before the reform, you were taking automatically the name of your husband unless you filled special forms (let's note than in Canada, provinces take care of vital records, including names). They removed that during the reform because they thought it was violating gender equality and violating the principe than names shouldn't change without a good reason, to simplify things for everyone. It wasn't retroactive, through. Some women still decided to do so after that, but it wasn't recognized by any administration and you couldn't get any service under that name. It's pretty much dead, now.

Did the Anglos put up a fuss? Around here not changing your name is seen as a "French thing" to do.

Wait, Maxque, are you saying married women couldn't own property in Quebec until 1981??
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