[PW] Icelandic Maiden Name?

[Dan Goodman]

Robert Sullivan wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how a person of Icelandic descent would be
> represented in a regional obituary database's maiden name field.

> If Asta Gustavsdottir Orsini is the daughter of Gustaf Stefansson and
> Kristin Gudmundsdottir, is Gustavsdottir considered her maiden name?
> I realize patronymics are used in Iceland, so perhaps the concept of
> maiden name is not meaningful?

Wouldn't this depend at least partly on where the marriage took place 
and what was customary there?



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