Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!arwen From: arwen@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.social Subject: Re: Naming - letting the kids choose their own names Message-ID: <1614@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 16:08:26 EST Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1614 Posted: Fri Mar 2 16:08:26 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 02:00:31 EST References: <3883@gatech.UUCP>, <929@pegasus.UUCP>, <835@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center Lines: 9 Under Sephardic Jewish tradition, children are named after LIVING relatives. I feel a strong attachment to this sort of "living tribute." My brother was named Aaron Raulf after his father, Raulf Maurice, and his grandfather, Maurice Raulf, and his great-grandfather, Aaron Moshe (they were all living at the time of his birth). -- -=< Lady Arwen >=- ...sdcsvax!sdccsu3!arwen