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My mother, up until she was 45 or 50, legally was "unnamed" according to her birth certificate. Her parents (may they rest in peace) couldn't agree on an English (American) name, but she had her Hebrew name all of her life. Quite a number of her friends "Down South" still call her "Sister" and (going off on a tangent here) she had to go through the Courts so that she would legally be Harriette.

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Around the time she was growing up, there was an illegal adoption ring headed by a social worker and a judge. I don't know off the top of my head how many children were quasi-legally removed from their parents and adopted out. If I have it correctly, there are still families finding out htat they are related by birth who were separated by these people.

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Even weirder, some of the things I've come across during my research concerning the "Others" (non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust). :shakes head in disbelief:. Does anybody want a government official like that in charge of his/her country's children's names? Or, after the end of WWII, Joseph McCarthy, junior senetor from Wisconsin and leader of the "witchhunters" seeking out "the Red menace".

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My head's swimming in the "facts" surrounding all of my research. Sorry.

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Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)