From: Vlada P. <vla...@gm...> - 2009-08-10 19:26:17
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Frederico Muñoz<fs...@gm...> wrote: > names with lots of surnames. I wonder how it is in, say, Slavic > countries, Greece, Italy, etc. > Well, in Serbia you have a first name and a surname. If you're female, you take your husbands surname; alternatively, you could add it to your own (ie. Đukić-Dejanović), but that is rarer. However, if you go back 200 or so years, it was common to form the surname based on your fathers name (ie. Marković - son of Marko), and females always took their husbands surname. This tradition was changed by a degree of Knez Miloš Obilić (or his successor) in the early 1800. Other regional countries work mostly the same way, though for example the practice of using patronymics held out longer in some parts - Montenegro, Bulgaria (AFAIK), and south/southeastern parts of Serbia. That's basically it for the Southern Slavic nations. I do know the Russians have a middle name based on their fathers name, but that's about the limit of my knowledge. Of note is that some people choose to change their name. In my tree, for example, one person took the last name "Cvetković", based on his grandfather (named Cvetko), even though his father's last name was Perić. Some people also change their last names to sound more "Serbian" (ie. Markov -> Marković -- Serbian last names tend to end in -ić), but both of these occurrences are very, very rare. In GRAMPS, I don't use the patronymic field and instead use the last name field always. I feel that GRAMPS is more designed for the Russian use case (where you have both a permanent surname and a name based on your father) rather than the one here, where you only have one surname (which might be based on your fathers name). -- Vlada Perić |