The legal use is 2 surnames, father mother, people can often recite combinations to several generations back, but that is really ancdotic, although it makes genealogy pretty straight forward
How? You assign your father as your “father” but your real father is your uncle. Then this wrong info is passed for generations. Where is the error correction term?
The legal use is 2 surnames, father mother, people can often recite combinations to several generations back, but that is really ancdotic, although it makes genealogy pretty straight forward
Right… As long as people were faithful (90%)
Still works, it’s just the DNA that doesn’t get passed along.
How? You assign your father as your “father” but your real father is your uncle. Then this wrong info is passed for generations. Where is the error correction term?
In this form, it’s as useful as normal Surnames.