My fiancé and I are both taking a new name. It’s not a portmanteau because nothing we mixed/smooshed sounded right to us. We definitely don’t want to hyphenate. Originally we were going to keep our names and the boys take his masc last name and the girls take my fem last name. That also didn’t feel right but it was…

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As someone who regularly practices genealogy on the professional level, allow me to let you in on a little secret: family trees are almost entirely arbitrary. Sure they are fun and interesting, but not as accurate or informative as we’d think. Throughout the ages bastard children have been named and documented as…