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Originally Posted by Awar
It depends on which people you know then. By "secular", you probably mean "city folk".
We've lived through communism here, and even during the time when nobody was allowed to practise religion, people knew who their cousins are. Let alone centuries of supressed christianity during Ottoman rule. So, I think it's something else you should be targeting with gluing "family" onto "religion".
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That is entirely as I would have expected ion the Balkans which I thought was probably more like rural Ireland than say rural Britain.
In Britain for example, many people have no idea who their cousins are let alone their second or third cousins.
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Then again, during the time when church was the strongest, few people actually had the right to have surnames. All across Europe.
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No, not in Ireland. We never had serfdom and the Irish system is based on clans (meta-families), our names are very ancient and continuous. My family name, for example, can be traced back to pre-Christian times, indeed to mythological sources.