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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One more thought—you may want to consider that they changed their names for more prosaic reasons too. [b]Immigration officials[/b] and us census takers were notoriously bad at spelling foreign names so some of my ancestors changed theirs to be easier to spell and pronounce in the US.[/quote] This is a untrue. Immigration officials were required to check names of immigrants with the names on manifests. If a name change was going to happen, it would have been done in the port of departure. Since there wouldn't have been any identity documents, passengers could give any name they wanted. Also, at Ellis Island all immigration officials spoke at least 3 languages including the language of the passengers coming in. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/[/quote]
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