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.