--If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island book

Book Details:

• Author: Ellen Levine
• Date: 01 Dec 1993
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Hardback::80 pages, ePub, Audio CD
• ISBN10: 0590461346
• Country United States
• File size: 46 Mb
• Dimension: 190.5x 236.22x 15.24mm::453.59g
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If your name were changed at Ellis Island -Would everyone in your family travel together -How long would you stay at Ellis Island -Would your name be While immigrants' surnames often changed as they adjusted to the new country and culture, they were very rarely changed upon their arrival at Ellis Island. This is not to say that the surnames of many immigrants were not changed at some point after their arrival in America. We have all heard someone say that their family name was "changed the inspectors at Ellis Island." Nowadays our names are recorded when we are born But even though many may have had unusual names at least to an English speaker it is a persistent myth that Ellis Island inspectors altered There is a myth that persists in the field of genealogy, or more accurately, in family lore, that family names were changed at Ellis Island.

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