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  2. List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames - Wikipedia

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    Many actors and other entertainers elect to add or include their mothers' maiden names in their adopted stage names.The book How to be a Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television advises aspiring performers to consider changing their names, noting that "if [your birth name] is difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember, it may not be the name you want ...

  3. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    "Matrilocal" means new families are established in proximity to the brides' extended family of origin, not that of the groom. Note: separate in the marriage column refers to the practice of husbands and wives living in separate locations, often informally called walking marriages .

  4. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineal surnames are names transmitted from mother to daughter, in contrast to the more familiar patrilineal surnames transmitted from father to son, the pattern most common among family names today. For clarity and for brevity, the scientific terms patrilineal surname and matrilineal surname are usually abbreviated as patriname and ...

  5. Matriname - Wikipedia

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    A matrilineal surname or matriname [1] [a] is a family name inherited from one's mother, and maternal grandmother, and so on whose line of descent is called a mother-line, mitochondrial line, or matriline. A matriname passed on to subsequent issue is unchanged, as compared to a matronymic, which is derived from the first name of each new mother.

  6. Category:Acting families - Wikipedia

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    Telugu film families (5 P) Terajima family (3 P) Terry family (23 P) Thurman Hawke family (7 P) Torres family (4 P) Troughton family (8 P) Tsang family (4 P) V ...

  7. List of South Indian film families - Wikipedia

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    The Akkineni–Daggubati family is a prominent film family with a long history in Telugu cinema. Akkineni Nageswara Rao and influential movie Mogul Daggubati Ramanaidu are the prominent heads of both families. [1] Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Nagarjuna (younger son of ANR) Akkineni Naga Chaitanya (son of Nagarjuna and Daggubati Lakshmi)

  8. Serer maternal clans - Wikipedia

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    The name of the family by the father's line (i.e. surname) is called Simangol. This is the name that the Serer carry for example : Sain, Joof, Faye, Sarr, Ngom, Njie, Ndour, Senghor, etc., (see Serer patronyms and Serer surnames for variations in spelling in the Gambia and Senegal). The Serers are bilineal, that is, patrilineal and matrilineal ...

  9. Matrilateral - Wikipedia

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    Social anthropologists have underlined that even where a social group demonstrates a strong emphasis on one or other line of inheritance (matrilineal or patrilineal), relatives who fall outside this unilineal grouping will not simply be ignored. So, a strongly patrilineal orientation will be complemented by matrilateral ties with the mother's kin.