My great grandmother immigrated >from Ukraine in 1901 to Philadelphia. On the manifest and the Soundex/Index card her name is Sore Lea SPECKTOR. On the HIAS record at the Philadelphia Jewish Archives her name is spelled Sure Leah. This is the only time I found her name to be spelled Sure. She was later listed in City Directories in Philadelphia and Los Angeles as Sarah. Her tombstone reads Sarah Leah. However, on the Ancestry.com index she is Lore Lea as they misread the S to be an L. She never learned English but all the city directories have her name spelled SPECTOR with an "O" while her children were always listed as SPECTER with an "E". Now I am wondering if this was some Ukrainian/Russian influence as when women have an A added to their surname in Russian.
