Maybe we are related, what was your maiden name or your mama's?

[Buff Hooligans]

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but isn't "Mother's Maiden Name" often a code question for credit card inquiries and passwords?

 

[jbowyer01]

I'm not worried about telling my mothers maiden name, I use words or phrases that have no real connection to me. I learned long ago not to use names as passwords or hints.

 

[PortageGirl]

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Yeah, but few companies actually use it anymore, and I make it up if they do, never give the right one (I gave her a maiden-name alias!) so no one else could actually use it, I always thought it was too easy a thing to find out! My WHOLE family came from Poland. 100% !!!

My maiden name is Kaczmarek.
My mother's maiden name was Adamkowski.
HER mother's maiden name was Smolinski.
I'd have to look up HER mother's maiden name because it eludes me at the moment.

My Father's Mother's maiden name was Ptak,( rumor had it there was some Romani in her, but I haven't been able to confirm that... I think my grandfather used calling her a "#&%@ Gypsy" as an insult, because in those bigoted days and in his mind it was, but I was told she really was half Rom. He wasn't a bad person, but he was a product of his time.
My father's paternal GRANDMOTHER's maiden name was Piechocki.

Yes, Kaczmarek IS a Polish name even though it doesn't end in 'ski'! A great aunt ... I think that's who it was, actually married another Kaczmarek, no real relation... possibly very distant past, but they both knew all their extended families back at least to 3rd cousins, several removed, and no one knew of any connection!

Our Grandparents all came to the US as children, our parents both spoke Polish in the home, had to learn English in school and on the street. (as opposed to what kids these days learn on the street!)

///edited so it's more organized and names are easier to see.

 

[Buckhorn Farm]

My maiden name was McKinney

Mom's side was Gamble, Wright, Walker, Carlton

Dad's was McKinney, Sadler, Towels

 

[Elite Silkies]

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No, I wish. But one of my ancestors was John Simpson Chisum "Cow John". By the summer of 1875, Chisum, the acknowledged "Cattle King of the Pecos", watched his herd increase to 80,000 longhorns. That year alone, he sent 10,000 cattle west into Arizona, and another 20,000 north into Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. Chisum was at the pinnacle of prosperity.

Billy the Kid even stole his cattle........... Kind of neat history. Chisum was one of Billy's and the Rustlers' biggest enemies after the war and was mainly the reason that Pat Garrett became sheriff of Lincoln County.

That is so coooool!

I think it's kind of neat.

 

[miss_thenorth]

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Was his neck "red"

(it's funnier when my son tells the joke.

PS, I think that the people who have posted their maiden names, OBVIOUSLY don't use their maiden names for security questions--or they wouldn't give them. I know I have never used my maiden name as a security question.

 

[breezy]

My mother's maiden name was Doody, her mother was a Dailey, and from her mother was O'Hara. The O'Hara's came over from Ireland, but it was suspected that one of the daughter's was pregnant when she arrived and unmarried. But we never got any details about it. My mother tried to get some tidbits from my grandmother before she died, but Grandma wasn't letting anyone know any details (she lived to be 103!) I suppose she was ashamed of the history.

She was a little vain.

We are all guessing she (the preg daughter) had an affair with a stagecoach driver for a rich family in Ireland where she was a governess. They scooped her up and came to the USA.

Well thats pretty interesting stuff a little racy and a bit scandalous Very Cool.
Thanks for sharing
breezy

 

[redhen]

Stygles
Allard
Marco
Paine
Rixham

 

[crazy cat lady]

My maiden name: Shepherd
Maternak: Royer, Hayworth, Vonderhiede
Paternal: Shepherd, not sure about dads moms maiden name.

 

[Luna_Chick66]

My maiden name - (I kept my maiden name) Gumble (no, I am no relation to Bryant GUMBEL.

My mom's maiden name: Dirk