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<DIV>My wife's uncle was born E. K. and did not have given</DIV>
<DIV>names until enlistment in USA required him to take them</DIV>
<DIV>on.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I represented a client who was a grandfather when it</DIV>
<DIV>was discovered that his surname was incorrect due</DIV>
<DIV>to his grandfather renaming him when his mother left</DIV>
<DIV>the child. One call to SS got it straightened out.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I have a great uncle whose given name appears as</DIV>
<DIV>Mellin, Mellen, Mellon, and Melvin. His 2nd wife</DIV>
<DIV>changed the birth places of her father and she in</DIV>
<DIV>every census. Turned out her father had four wives,</DIV>
<DIV>lived in 5 states, and she was the family baby sitter.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cchouk@cox.net href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">Cecil Houk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Problems with
names</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>FWIW: My maternal grandmother's brother, Earnest
Andeson, was not given a middle name at birth. So when somebody insisted
that he had to have at least a middle initial (probably Social Security), he
said, "F." "F" as in Fern; his wife. (I still don't know her
maiden name.) If they ever had any children it could have been Clarence
Anderson; Fern often called me by that name, but would correct
herself.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Earnie and Fern are long gone. So this is a brick
wall. :-(</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>(a recap) My maternal grandfather, Cecil Clark
Rulaford's father was born Edgar McMullin (or some variation of that
spelling). He became George A. Rulaford, and married my gr grandmother,
Martha Jane Ford in 1880. All of the Rulafords are gone now, and we may
never know the truth. (see my web page menu in my footer)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Why do we encounter these brick walls? We may
never know.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Good hunting,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.<BR>PO Box 530833<BR>San Diego
CA 92153<BR>FAX 619-428-6434<BR><A
href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">mailto:cchouk@cox.net</A><BR>ANDERSON - BLAKELY -
FORD - HOUK - KIMSEY - MOE - RULAFORD - SIMPSON<BR>Searchable GEDCOM: <A
href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk">http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk</A><BR>My
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