[Moo] What do I need to do to shed my mundane name?

[Denise McMahon]

I wouldn't worry too much. My sca name is Rowan Berran McDowell and  
I'm a Mongol who does a lot of travelling. :)

With a bit of ingenuity, you can make *almost* anything work.

-Rowan B.

On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:55 PM, PHF wrote:

> Although I like my modern name, I am anxious to have a name for my  
> SCA persona, even though I haven't fleshed out my persona  
> altogether. There is an English name of which I have become  
> enamored, and I've given serious thought to it - including thinking  
> I would be able to answer to it if I were on fire - for long and  
> hard enough that I'm pretty sure this is The Name. I have checked  
> for it on the links from the SCA heraldry pages, and it is a valid  
> and (as far as I can tell) acceptable name that should not require  
> further documentation to get it registered when I'm ready to do  
> that. It seems to have been found from the twelfth century to the  
> late sixteenth, so I will still have some wiggle room to develop my  
> persona in several time periods; therefore, the likelihood of my  
> needing to change my name down the road, after more research, is  
> smaller than it might be with other names confined to a single  
> century. Additionally, looking at the list of the population of  
> Stierbach on its website, I do not see anyone with the same name.
>
> What do I need to do to take this name? Do I have to have a one-on- 
> one consult with our herald to have it approved? Do I have to  
> register it before I use it? Or can I begin using it, like, now,  
> since I'm reasonably certain I won't, for heraldic legal purposes  
> or because of my own capricious nature, need to change it later on?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any guidance you may have!
>
> Pamela
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