Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:39:24 -0400

From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: Garcia (Marquez)



Ah, but note that Eric (or Eirikur) Ericsson and his sister

Ericsdottir are never surnamed after their mother (unlike the very nice

Spanish system). So one must still trace ancestry through the males in

the family, as I did last summer in Sweden: Olof Larsson and his wife

Stina ? begat Lars Gustaf Olofsson, who begat Frans Gustafsson (Swedes

like to go by their middle names), etc.; but Gustaf's sister was Sara

Lisa Olofsdottir, not Stinasdottir, and when she married Jonas

Johannesson their son was named Gustaf Jonasson, not Lisasson. My

grandfather the immigrant, born Jonas Peter Olofsson, became simply

John Olson in this country--but that was no less confusing for the

postal system in Minnesota!

Beverly Olson, now Flanigan--an

equally confusing, and usually misspelled, name.