[ANSTHRLD] name submission - Zoya

[Kathri at aol.com]

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In a message dated 9/4/2001 6:56:52 PM Central Daylight Time,
aggileslie at hotmail.com writes:

> One of my clients would like to submit the name Zoya Leigh, it was Catherine
> the Greats grandmothers name.  I told my client that I didn't think she
>

The rule says we won't register the name of an actual person _who is
important enough to have an individual entry in a standard biographical
reference_.  A quick search of online biographical sources didn't turn up
anything, even though I searched for only Zoya and separately for Zoya linked
to Catherine.  So there's a chance.

On the other hand, there could be other problems.  Check your client's
documentation for the spellings, for one thing.  To me -- and just off the
top of my head at that -- this looks like a combination of Russian/Eastern
European given name and English byname.  It may be registerable, but then we
get start asking what your client really wants.  This name, regardless of how
authentic it is?  Authenticity?  If so, to what culture and time period?  A
reference to Catherine the Great's family?  (Catherine was 1762-1796, so even
her grandmother would probably be post-1650.  Certainly she had forbears
within the SCA time frame, but tracing them back through the fragmented
German principalities would make my eyes glaze over.  Sounds like a job for
Magnus-the-great-geneologist, and then only if your client insists.)

Tell your client there's a chance, ask a few more questions, and post again
if you want more help.  You are to be commended for asking ahead of time.  We
can have much happier clients, and heralds, by doing careful consultation.

Kathri