From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 05/29/2012 03:58 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >> What I was wondering, though, is whether the mother's maiden   
   >> name counts for family association. For example, could our   
   >> hypothetical Mr. Wang's parents have been Mr. Wang and the former   
   >> Miss Shin? If so, would he have any association with the Shin   
   >> family elsewhere? (My own mother's maiden name is rare enough so   
   >> that anybody else with it is probably related somehow.)   
   >   
   > I do not know. That question never arose, and I never thought to ask it.   
   > I speculate that given the patriarchial system that dominates all but a   
   > few places (yes there are a few small matriarchial societies in Asia),   
   > the distaff line would not carry much if any weight.   
      
   Thanks for the clarification!  BTW I tried plugging my mother's maiden   
   name into Google and it pulled up a total of only six people, five close   
   relatives and one stranger.   
      
   Adam   
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