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Ancestry/Genealogy

PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. I have always thought that the stories of names being changed at Ellis Island to be

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 12, 2018, 12:41 PM

Jul 2018

only marginally believable. Especially when people claim that the spelling of their name was changed from Andersen to Anderson, or some such trivial alteration. Even more especially as the immigrants weren't exactly given formal documents that they had to use from then on.

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Immigrant Name Changes [View all] no_hypocrisy Jun 2018 OP

Some reasons are simple and straight forward. Delmette2.0 Jun 2018 #1

Some, if not most of the Ellis Island name change stories are bogus. 3Hotdogs Jun 2018 #2

I have always thought that the stories of names being changed at Ellis Island to be PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #4

Ellis Island staff said that names could be easily changed once you left the island. 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #5

Yep. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #6

All of my female ancestors/relatives from Italy were listed by maiden and not their married names wishstar Jul 2018 #3

I have name changes on both maternal and paternal sides. Ellis Island wasn't involved. LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #7