Re: [Cz-L] traveling under mother's maiden name

Jews did not want to marry officially at the Government, for religious
reasons. Therefore their children were considered  born without a
father and bore the names of their mothers.
One of my grandfathers also bore the name of is mother
Paul Heger
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:42 PM, <AJS1PRES_at_aol.com> wrote:
>
> I have just discovered that one of my great aunts, when emigrating to the
> US from Czernowitz in 1904, traveled under her mother's maiden name.
> Has anyone heard of this before, or can enlighten me as to why one would do
>  this, please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce Wexler
> Jackson, NJ
>
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