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My name is my father?s father?s, who emigrated from Norway. I embraced the lessons of my father?s family and carried on.?Lori Latus, 53, in Lexington, Ky., and Melbourne, Australia. It created an identity crisis ? I didn?t know who this new person was supposed to be.?Jennifer Lahue, 48, an American living in Vienna. Photo?I am deeply attached to my father?s family ? my paternal grandmother was widowed during the Great Depression with five children (and one in utero) to raise without family or financial assistance. But after a few years, I became strangely proud of my surname and it was firmly part of my identity.