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Niven
This custom may seem absurd to you, but it has
proved itself over successive generations. For example, like you, I am a
Sinclair because my Father and is and his patrilineal ancestors were also
Sinclairs. My Mother is/was a Fraser but as is the custom and practice, she
relinquished her name on marriage. I think my Father would have considered it
absurd if his children were Frasers!
I have to assure you that my paragenetic links
to the Frasers do not dilute my Sinclair-ness, even if you assert that the
matrilineal genes are stronger!!
Euan 'Heldonside' ;-)
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