marialuvjah42202@... (Steffi and Tom Reeves) writes:

I ran across numerous entries in the HSig birth records that mention surname
changes. As I found names like : Kohn changed to KORMOS, which is my
husbands' grandfather's name. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas as
to why the names were changed?

There was a strong trend in Hungary to change stereotypically Jewish names to
Hungarian ones. See e.g.
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace-jspui/bitstream/10315/3968/1/icos23_375.pdf
for an interesting discussion of this.

Robert Israel
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada