The Two Sisters
The May 24th, 2023 Hodgepodge questions had the theme about brothers. I am sharing the link to the post below.
The first question asked if you had any brothers. I went on to share that no I did not and that I came from a family of girls.
1. May 24th is National Brother's Day. Do you have a brother? No Older or younger? Did you raise brothers? Yes Tell us something about your brother or tell us something about your own children who are brothers.
We are blessed that our two boys are also best friends. I grew up with all girls. Everyone in my extended family had girls. When my husband and I had children, we broke the cycle on my side of the family, as the first to have boys.
My blog friend Dewena shared with me the following comment..
I didn't have a brother either, Carla, I had 3 younger sisters and out of a dozen cousins on my father's side only 2 were boys. And since neither of them had sons, my father's family name "daughtered off." Have you ever heard of that old term? Maybe it was known as that only in the South.
I answered Dewena that this has happened to our family. My father's family name has been "daughtered off." I did not know this old term, and maybe it is only known in the South.
I have a few questions for my dear friends out there.. here we go.
1. Have you heard of that old term "daughtered off"?
2. Has this happened to your father's family name?
3. Have you heard of ways to keep your maiden name
Yes, I do know that you can choose not to change your name. I am thinking of other creative ways to keep your maiden name within the family if you know that it will be daughtered off.
My one friend shared that she knew of a family who added the family name to the middle name of the first born child.
My maiden name has been daughtered off and come to think of it, I have never asked my dad how he feels about that. I will have to do just that next time we visit and I will share what he says.
In the meantime I am excited to hear your thoughts and stories about daughtered off.
♥
Carla
