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Back in the 1990s, I was in Edinboro, and was charmed to see that a bookstore had your books filed under McMaster -- of COURSE the Scots, "wha hey!"
Spanish surnames come in pairs, the father’s surname followed by the mother’s. The father’s surname is primary and persists down the generations, so I suppose it would come naturally to a Spanish librarian to shelve your books under McMaster, interpreting it as your father’s (primary) surname. Spanish married women normally retain their original surnames, not adopting the husband’s.
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Back in the 1990s, I was in Edinboro, and was charmed to see that a bookstore had your books filed under McMaster -- of COURSE the Scots, "wha hey!"
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Spanish surnames come in pairs, the father’s surname followed by the mother’s. The father’s surname is primary and persists down the generations, so I suppose it would come naturally to a Spanish librarian to shelve your books under McMaster, interpreting it as your father’s (primary) surname. Spanish married women normally retain their original surnames, not adopting the husband’s.
