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Post by sliderocker on Sept 26, 2013 4:02:11 GMT -5
If you go to the Pima County Clerk of Court and pull those case records, it will be quite obvious that this Maria Linda Ronstadt is in fact Linda Ronstadt. Either that, or someone masquerading as a harassed celebrity decided to sue someone just for kicks. Possibly, although there is the possibility of more than one person having the same first, middle and last names. I was looking for an old girlfriend I wanted to reconnect with a few years ago and ran into a problem in my search for her (on the internet): five different women, all with the same first, middle and last names. All in the same area. I was able to rule two of the five out because the year of birth was wrong. The other three were all born in the same year, the same as my old girlfriend. One was indeed her but it took a long time to find her, even with what I could find. So, as incredible as it may seem, there could be multiple women whose names are either Linda Maria (or Marie) Ronstadt or Maria Linda Ronstadt, and that could include some born in the same year and possibly in the same month. The party you referenced may be our Linda...then again, it may not. I found a court document for a Maria Linda Ronstadt out of Arizona from 2006, a traffic citation, failure to carry proof of financial responsibility on an auto. The case was dismissed. The date of birth was listed as July '46, which put it in line with Linda, but the exact date of birth wasn't shown. It could've been July 15th or July 1st or any other time in July. So, before I'd be willing to say this was Linda, I'd like to see the full date of birth, and not just the month and year.
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Post by beatle on Sept 26, 2013 6:14:21 GMT -5
I still think it is as simple as she chose to go by her middle name....for whatever reason. My wife and I know a family with 3 daughters all with the same fist name Mary with different middle names and they all were known by their middle name.....I long ago thought of using my middle name,Ross, as my "real" name.......and I didn't like the name Richard anyway (or worse the nickname Dick which my father used)...so when I entered a new school I decided to be called "Rich" and it has been that way ever since....not Richie....not rick...not rickie.....not dickie.... ...of course Sue uses "Richard" when she is either angry or trying to make a point in an argument......(insert sound of pan hitting my head..
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Post by Tony on Sept 26, 2013 9:22:59 GMT -5
Sliderocker,
You are just being argumentative for the sake of argument. There are people on this forum with knowledge of this case that know for a fact that this case involves Linda Ronstadt.
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Post by Robert Morse on Sept 26, 2013 11:12:53 GMT -5
I still think it is as simple as she chose to go by her middle name....for whatever reason. My wife and I know a family with 3 daughters all with the same fist name Mary with different middle names and they all were known by their middle name.....I long ago thought of using my middle name,Ross, as my "real" name.......and I didn't like the name Richard anyway (or worse the nickname Dick which my father used)...so when I entered a new school I decided to be called "Rich" and it has been that way ever since....not Richie....not rick...not rickie.....not dickie.... ...of course Sue uses "Richard" when she is either angry or trying to make a point in an argument......(insert sound of pan hitting my head.. I can hear the sound of that pan hitting your head all the way over here:)
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 26, 2013 11:38:20 GMT -5
Sliderocker, You are just being argumentative for the sake of argument. There are people on this forum with knowledge of this case that know for a fact that this case involves Linda Ronstadt. No, I'm willing to concede it could be Linda and probably is Linda, but I'm just pointing out another possibility here, based on my own experience with looking for my old girlfriend. Part of my search included searching court records, which was where I found information on three different individuals with the name of the person I was looking for. What are the chances that could've happened like that? Of course, Linda and Maria are common names whereas Ronstadt may be an uncommon name as compared to people with the last name of Smith or Jones. And with internet postings of court records and/or personal information of people posted everywhere on the internet, we shouldn't automatically assume the information we find on a person happens to be the one we are talking about. It could be a different person altogether.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 26, 2013 12:20:14 GMT -5
I think it is good to know the facts even if rather than change it in the header of wiki we or someone could mention it in the bio paragraph. Birthers may wish to know if she was really born in the US, Kenya or Mexico and if she is indeed a citizen.
I still want to know how she dropped out of high school and got accepted to the U of A. I don't think they had GED's back then. At least we now know for sure she went to U of A and NOT ASU as most bios tell us.
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Post by Jim on Sept 26, 2013 13:02:56 GMT -5
I think it is good to know the facts even if rather than change it in the header of wiki we or someone could mention it in the bio paragraph. Birthers may wish to know if she was really born in the US, Kenya or Mexico and if she is indeed a citizen. I still want to know how she dropped out of high school and got accepted to the U of A. I don't think they had GED's back then. At least we now know for sure she went to U of A and NOT ASU as most bios tell us. (GED) was first established in 1942 for WW2 veterans. In the early 1960s, the program “GED” was first offered to non-veterans. Anyone could take the test, as long as the student was age 16 or older, was out of school and did not hold a high school diploma. Don't know if she took it, but recall her saying the U of A did give her some test of entrance.
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Post by 1peterd on Sept 26, 2013 13:48:41 GMT -5
Not sure what to think about the first name. Enough people say Maria to make me feel they may know something. But records of things like her 1961 photo in the Catalina high school year book on page 171 show her name to be Linda. Her auto registration for her 1982 Porsche, show her name as Linda. California list names on registration as; last name first, then first name, and then middle initial. I don’t know what to believe.
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Post by Partridge on Sept 26, 2013 18:36:30 GMT -5
I have had communication with the attorney who represented Linda Ronstadt in the case where her name is listed as Maria Linda Ronstadt. As many of you may know, Linda has had some problems throughout her career with overly avid fans and outright stalkers. This was one of those cases.
The attorney confirmed to me that Linda's legal name is Maria Linda Ronstadt, and that seals the deal for me.
As for all y'all, you can discuss it among yourselves, but for me, the matter is closed.
The name of the attorney I am not going to divulge because that would, I'm sure, generate a lot of inquiries for the attorney.
That is why I also blocked out the name of the defendant. This is an old matter, now closed-- no point embarrassing this person by propagating the name on a Linda Ronstadt forum.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 26, 2013 18:39:23 GMT -5
It has been closed for me too since the old forum discussion. I just couldn't remember why lol.
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Post by macbanshee on Sept 26, 2013 22:23:52 GMT -5
UA doesn't always require high school graduation. I visited the university in 1968, the summer before I graduated from high school, and I was offered immediate admission because I had enough high school credits. (I declined because I wanted to graduate from high school).
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 27, 2013 12:33:39 GMT -5
UA doesn't always require high school graduation. I visited the university in 1968, the summer before I graduated from high school, and I was offered immediate admission because I had enough high school credits. (I declined because I wanted to graduate from high school). That certainly would explain it then! I don't think that would fly today though unless there were some special circumstance. Thanks macbanshee as it possibly answers another of those questions that nag.
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Post by Goldie on Aug 15, 2015 20:45:11 GMT -5
I noticed this in the homepage:
Maria Linda Ronstadt was born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona. No other vocalist has had a more diversified career than Linda Ronstadt. She began her career in the mid-1960s with the folk-rock group the Stone Poneys. After the break-up of the Stone Poneys, Linda entered the country music field. In 1969, with the release of Hand Sown... Home Grown, Linda became the first female singer to release an alt-country album.
So is it settled finally? that Maria is Linda's first name? John Boylan didn't even know when I asked him a few years back.
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Post by Guest on Aug 15, 2015 20:50:03 GMT -5
I guess the answer would be for someone to produce a birth certificate, but then, we have people who don't believe what they see on a birth certificate either. While it's possible Linda may have been born Maria Linda and preferred to be called Linda, I think that error would've been caught and corrected long before now. Read more: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1574/wikipedia?page=2#ixzz3iwFS1u9CThere is that rumor that Linda was actually born in Kenya and that trip she and Jerry took to Africa early in her career was to visit her birth parents. I wonder if we should put Donald Trump the birther on this case?
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 16, 2015 7:49:18 GMT -5
my mother went by her middle name. a lot of her paperwork other than her birth certificate show her middle name as if it was her first name. she went by her middle name as she was named after my grandmother's sister and to avoid confusion they called my mom by her middle name. eddiejinfl
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 3, 2018 2:42:00 GMT -5
I thought this would be an interesting thread to resurrect. Isn't it settled now from Linda herself that her name is and always was Linda Maria Ronstadt?
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Post by macbanshee on Apr 30, 2018 20:47:32 GMT -5
It has been confirmed directly and personally by Linda to the attorney who filed the previously mentioned stalker case and notarized her signature on it that her legal name is Maria Linda Ronstadt. She can go by whatever name she chooses, but it is 100% beyond doubt that she was born Maria Linda. There is certainly no need to produce her birth certificate. (Surprised that this thread was resurrected.)
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Post by Belle on May 1, 2018 0:24:02 GMT -5
My family called me by my middle name from the time I was born. Even my school records up through college had my legal Middle name listed as my First name. Social Security Admin allowed it, Employment, and the IRS as well. No one seemed to care how I presented my name. That's how it used to be.
Then 9/11 happened, employers and government agencies had to start requiring proof of citizenship, and my official Birth Certificate was different from my name on record. So I acquired a name change document from the state, filled it out to reverse the order of my First and Middle names, my mother was required to sign before a Notary, and I got a shiny new Birth Certificate which now matched all of my historical records.
The only doc that ever had the correct order of my legal name, was my Passport. And it was a nightmare to renew it, having them change my first and middle names around...
It's not easy to get a birth certificate unless it's for yourself, close family member, or an Executor/Court requests it, so we'll never know, but I don't doubt she was born Maria Linda Ronstadt. It sounds like Linda and I both switched our first and middle names throughout life!
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Post by Linda Says Differently on May 1, 2018 14:33:34 GMT -5
...at the Delaware Presentation a year or two ago (could it be three years?), she said Linda was her first name on the birth certificate, but since there is no Saint Linda, her baptismal record is switched. She did say that her Dad used to call her Maria at times.
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 1, 2018 16:38:38 GMT -5
I went to that show and I kind of don't recall that question. I do recall her saying something about there is not a Saint Linda if I'm correct. I was trying to find date of it but there is a link to when Linda and David Bromberg sang together in Wilmington at his concert. There is a 12 minute audiomentary (my made up word) of the making of "A World Never Made" at the concert. It is on a site called PRX. If you did "Ronstadt at 60 Bromberg" in search their site or do a goggle search it should come up. I wanna say the concert was probably in 2015 maybe 16. eddiejinnj
PS: I said to myself I can do a search on here and find it. For some reason am not putting in the right words. Maybe somebody else can look or I will try again later. I find that I get more done if I give up for a bit then go back to it!!!!! I had found the Tilles Center Show on LI,NY and that was November 27, 2016 and I know it had been at least a year since I saw her in Delaware when I saw her in LI.
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Post by ausfan2 on May 1, 2018 20:13:24 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on May 2, 2018 0:27:32 GMT -5
...at the Delaware Presentation a year or two ago (could it be three years?), she said Linda was her first name on the birth certificate, but since there is no Saint Linda, her baptismal record is switched. She did say that her Dad used to call her Maria at times.
This was why I resurrected the thread. Someone had posted Linda's response to this question in another thread but I couldn't find it and it seemed to be post this discussion. I am thinking it was someone that read the forum discussion and was determined to get the answer from the horses mouth herself. I happened on this thread by mistake while looking for something else. (because one would not know from it's title that Linda's birth certificate was the topic) Having found it again I brought it forward. I find it odd that Linda would tell one person one thing and someone else another without having some reason for doing so. I should have asked Linda's mom when I had the chance lol but it wasn't anything I was even remotely thinking of at the time. I wonder if Linda's brother Pete or her kids would even know. They seem to be on social media but I have always been one to stay away for the most part.
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Post by Linda Says Differently on May 2, 2018 2:37:54 GMT -5
I was the one who submitted the question in writing before the Philadelphia College Show (I was wrong about it being Delaware show). It was West Chester on 3/10/17 - on a year and change, not as long ago as I remembered. I put her answer up on my normal sign-in name 70sMusicFan - perhaps you can find it now.
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Post by 70smusicfan on May 2, 2018 2:48:55 GMT -5
Here was my post on the West Chester thread about Linda's answer (which matches her name on cancelled checks offered for sale on e-Bay - you know, the pretty landscape checks offered in the 70s, even I had some): Post by 70smusicfan on Mar 11, 2017 at 12:56pm I posed "the" question in an e-mail over two weeks ago, and it was asked at West Chester. The question was paraphrased as: “There is speculation that Ms. Ronstadt’s birth certificate name is actually ‘Maria Linda Ronstadt’ due to her Mexican Catholic heritage. I wonder if there was some possibility she Anglicized her name.” The answer as I remember it was: "The name on my birth certificate is 'Linda Ronstadt' but when I was little my father used to call me 'Maria Linda', which is the name on my baptismal record since there is no Saint Linda. So I didn't Anglicize my name." Read more: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/4274/lindas-speaking-engagement-chester-march#ixzz5EKPmgW5G
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 2, 2018 8:49:24 GMT -5
Thanks aus for posting the prx link. eddiejinnj
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Post by the Scribe on May 2, 2018 10:16:09 GMT -5
I was the one who submitted the question in writing before the Philadelphia College Show (I was wrong about it being Delaware show). It was West Chester on 3/10/17 - on a year and change, not as long ago as I remembered. I put her answer up on my normal sign-in name 70sMusicFan - perhaps you can find it now.
Thanks!! Now I can sleep at night. (kinda, sorta)
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Post by Tony on May 4, 2018 2:01:51 GMT -5
Well, since we're discussing this again, I recall an article several years ago in the Cincinnati Enquirer about Nick Clooney and his television show. I think it was a local programme. He said he always got his guests to sign an autograph in his book. Linda was on his program and in this article he said she signed her name "Maria Linda Ronstadt"-- this would have been in 1968 or 1969.
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Post by Partridge on May 4, 2018 2:17:28 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on May 14, 2018 7:53:24 GMT -5
This makes for some mighty interesting Ronstadt fan reading. I didn't know stuff like this was even available:
Talk:Linda Ronstadt/Archive 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < Talk:Linda Ronstadt
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linda_Ronstadt/Archive_1
Lots more interesting stuff discussed there. Who are these people? Wikipedia has an editing staff? Is this supposed to be a public link? Copy it while you can.
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Post by the Scribe on May 14, 2018 8:36:32 GMT -5
found another page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linda_Ronstadt
They really put Linda through the mill!! Probably good though but still it is subjective on their part and they don't seem to like fan input. some excerpts:Haha must be a fan mole in the organization:
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