Serros or Cerros or Serro or Zero: surname origins

["Edward Serros" <ed@...>]

To all:

I would like to give you an example of the interesting nature of surnames. The email reply 
below is from an Austrian, Christine Serro, who is applying to the Tandem Program at the 
University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, where my daughter, Megan (Maya) Serros, 
works and is in charge of new job applicants.

Christine Serro below responds to an inquiry about her surname since it obviously is so 
close to my daughter's surname of Serros.

Surnames are crazy and you should never assume anything.

Ed


From: <h0351051@...>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:42:28 +0100
To: Tandem Progam <tandem.program@...>
Subject: Re: Exchange semester

Hi Maya,

Thank you for your mail! You are not bothering me at all and I definitely don't
think that you are crazy.  I find it also very interesting that your name is so
close to mine! Unfortunately, my great-grandfather grew up in an orphanage in
Venedig, Italy because his mother (or father..) has given him away when he was
a baby. In the orphanage he got the number Zero (0) and after years that
transformed into Serro. ...so, that is not very much what I know about my
family tree. Do you have any relatives in Italy or Austria?

Bye Bye,
Christine Serro