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Hi everybody!

I am currently working on a branch of my family that lived in Galicia, Spain. I am now digitalizing the information that my mother gathered (she is awesome, I love working with her) and writing it in the program that we use.

I am now in the 1600s and 1700s and I find it super interesting because there are big differences between them and other branches of the family in the same period.

First most of the people seem to have a lot of flexibility inheriting the surnames. In the 1600s surnames were a common thing already for a while in Spain and their use was very clear: Name + first father surname + first mother surname. (So it would be Clara Pena Herrero for example. With the father being called Pena Iglesias and the mother Herrero Sanchez.

But in this side of the family (and before the 1800s) they seem to have very flexible systems. More often than not the kids are named following the portuguese system of mother first and father second (in my example Clara Herrero Pena). Which is very cool and a pity that it disappeared later but it makes sense since they are heavily influenced by Portugal.

And sometimes they get creative. I had kids inheriting the grandmas surname (so the kid would be Clara Sanchez Pena or any other combination possible). I find it super confusing but very fun and enjoyable since its so different to the rest of Spain (at least from the east coast that I am more familiar with).

My mother also says that she saw sometimes cases where the kid has one surname if its a boy (lets say the fathers surnames) and another one if its a girl (like the mothers). I havent seen it yet in this data but its also interesting.

Have anybody found similar practises in Galicia or in neighbouring areas? Does anybody have an explanation of the different traditions? :)

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Galicia-Lodomeria is full of well-known politicians(like Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski for an example), that committed to Polish independence. Considering the Polish majority in the region, why wouldn't they try to join the motherland? Do they think the current Polish government is illegitimate or maybe they just fear the Austrian intervention? What do you think about it?

Benvido readers,

This is our weekly discussion of the literature of the world! Every Wednesday, we'll post a new country or culture for you to recommend literature from, with the caveat that it must have been written by someone from that country (i.e. Shogun by James Clavell is a great book but wouldn't be included in Japanese literature).

Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain with it's own unique language and culture. May 17 is Galician Literature Day and to celebrate we're discussing Galician literature! Please use this thread to discuss your favorite Galician books and authors.

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Isn’t he still their King/Emperor even if they have their own heads of government?

Here is a link to a story, but the first few paragraphs sums it up:

> Tuesday evening, Francisco Galicia, 18, was released after nearly a month-long imprisonment in Texas, first in a Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) detention center and then in the custody of the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). The crime that he committed? Riding in a car while Latino, in the company of an undocumented immigrant. > > From the Washington Post: > > > They were stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint in the South Texas town of Falfurrias, about 65 miles north of their hometown, according to his attorney, Claudia Galan. They were asked for papers. And Galicia had plenty, including a wallet-sized Texas birth certificate, a Texas ID card and Social Security card, Galan said. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained Galicia anyway over suspicion that his documents were fraudulent.

So again:

• He is an American citizen.

• He had all the proper documentation.

• He committed no crimes.

What, exactly, could he have done differently?

Compounding this are the new rules for 'expedited removal' coming into effect:

> Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the AIC, said the changes were "massive and dangerous," adding, "now, if ICE believes someone is undocumented and has lived in the US for less than two years — with the burden on the immigrant to prove otherwise — they can deport that person within days, with almost no court review allowed."

Given the burden of proof lies with the detained person, ICE could easily deport an American citizen like Francisco Galicia without due process, simply by asserting he had not proven his citizenship.

Does it concern you when American citizens' rights are being threatened?

I know several people from Spain and this is a topic that often comes up while we are at a bar together. From listening in on their heated arguments as well as occasionally reading about politics in Spain, nobody ever seems to consider a UK style system in Spain.

Now I know that the UK is far from perfect (especially with the cluster f*ck that is brexit) but I feel like a United Kingdom of the Iberian peninsula would be a better solution than the current system they have in place. To me it seems like a decent compromise between all parties involved. This is just an idea that popped into my head the other day though. I’m posing this idea simply as a sounding board for further discourse. I’m curious what other people think of my idea. They reluctantly liked my idea when I ran it by my Spanish friends, but that is to be expected since it is a compromise.

Please be nice, like I said, it’s just an idea. Spain has always held a special place in my heart ever since I did a study abroad in Spain a couple summers ago.