Goes to show how much I was reading my Livejournal... Three years, eh? But very sensible to get it out of the way all at once. Thing is, you did it officially, of your own choice. My parents just Anglicised my name when I was starting school, and it never occurred to any of us that it might be a problem. It was never changed officially. But it's all sorted now - and my friend Bart, who came over to sign my photo, said he had had to do the whole change of name thing a couple of years back. He is an adoptee and when he wanted to get back his birth name, he had more work to do than I did, because my official documents are all in the Anglicised name, while his were in his adopted parents' name.