[lace] Re Unfolding pictures

2006-08-23 Thread ann humphreys
Try: http://www.lacefairy.com/ The email address has got tangled in the name of the website Sue Thank you Sue and Jean. It works just fine now. Ann - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace] Crochet Fantasy (attn. San Diego people)

2006-08-23 Thread Patsy A. Goodman
Hi, If you live in San Diego, CA, USA and want this magazine. As of noon today (Wed.) when I was at Borders book store in Mission valley, they had 6 copies left after I bought mine. Due to my very low finances I couldn't afford to buy them all and mail to those that wanted them, sorry. I

[lace] Dominique in Paris?

2006-08-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
Sorry to bother the list-at-large, but my messages to Dominique keep being rejected. French not being my forte, I only realised it today, when I decided to risk checking a spam message, bcause I was curious why I was suddenly having a spate of messages from a French site which was *not*

RE: [lace-chat] a question about surname

2006-08-23 Thread Martha Krieg
Probably not *exactly* advertise - but maybe hang a bit on the coat-tails of the father? At 7:39 AM +0200 8/23/06, Avital wrote: I asked my husband, who's English, and he said, Why would anyone want to advertise the fact? ;-) Avital That's true, but historically, a double barrelled name is

[lace-chat] Surnames

2006-08-23 Thread Jean Nathan
Of course, there's also the fact that, in the UK at least, you can legally be known by any name you like. You can either do it through official documentation in the form of a deed poll, or just advertise the fact that from whatever date you choose you wish to be known as ... A

Re: [lace-chat] Surnames

2006-08-23 Thread Thurlow Weed
OK, I didn't think I was going to jump into the midst of the nomenclatural frolic, but what the heck. It's been an interesting thread and answered several questions I often pondered. Now with my mother being Dutch, when she married my American father, she followed Dutch tradition and used

Re: [lace-chat] a question about surname

2006-08-23 Thread Brenda Paternoster
To get financial support from the father? Brenda On 23 Aug 2006, at 06:39, Avital wrote: I asked my husband, who's English, and he said, Why would anyone want to advertise the fact? ;-) Avital That's true, but historically, a double barrelled name is more likely to have come about through

Re: [lace-chat] Surnames

2006-08-23 Thread Alice Howell
Here in the USA, I'm more familiar with a woman adding a married name to the end of the maiden name. I have a niece who didn't want to give up her maiden name, so she called herself Johnson-Smith. Her husband just uses his name of Smith. The best known example here is Hilary Rodham-Clinton.

[lace-chat] Re: SURNAMES

2006-08-23 Thread Helen Ward
A quote which I wrote out some years ago from a genealogy book says, To create a little distinction, some people, particularly those who had, or felt they had, some authority or standing, added their mothers' maiden names to their surnames So it looks as if there is no end to the reasons why

[lace-chat] Re: Surnames

2006-08-23 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Aug 23, 2006, at 17:52, Alice Howell wrote: Here in the USA, I'm more familiar with a woman adding a married name to the end of the maiden name. You don't know the half :) When I got married (1973), my husband told me that the custom (which I took to mean the Southern custom) was for the