My point was to refute the claim that absolutely no names were changed on Ellis Island at any time, before or after they went through immigration, that whatever name a person had on the ship was their

While names may not have been changed at Ellis Island - the names might have been changed before getting on the ship! My great-grandmother traveled under the same last name as another family from her

I don't know what applies in these specific cases - but both of them are after the area changed from Hungarian rule to Czechoslovakian following the Trianon agreement of 1920.

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My earlier KRAUSE search has now progressed into a search for Marsha/Marcia/Martha (COHEN) KRAUT, h: Martin KRAUT, New York and New Mexico. She would be the daughter of Beral William ‘Willy’

Here's the grain of truth: Someone in the family changed their surname. Not surprising, since many "last names" were, literally, "son of X," and changed from generation to generation.

I am looking for an friend somebody who can do a research in or nearby Cluj (Klausenburg). My friend tried to get hold of Ladislau Gyemant, an Avotaynu contributor, but probably his email does not

On my grandmother’s passenger manifest, her mother’s family name, Scherzer, is lined out and her father’s family name, Weiss, is written above it. Who would have done this and where would it

According to most of the SANDLER family living in the USA during WWII, most (or all) of the KAGAN family were feared murdered in the Shoah. Ita Beila SANDLER was my mother’s paternal aunt. To

It would be helpful to add what resources you have already used and any birth/death dates places of residence and other information you may have. You will be more likely to find help when we know

Noel - The introductions are extremely helpful, but they're geared towards using databases themselves--(indispensable) partial indexes of the original records rather than original records

It doesn't cover specifically Jewish registers, but the FamilySearch Wiki page on Hungary Church Records has a variety of examples of headers and their translations:

Mihai Grunfeld from Cluj: Hi, this is me, at grunfeld@.... Can you confirm receiving this email? Mihai

Perhaps we should let Betty White have the last word. In her Saturday Night Live "census taker" sketch with Tina Fey, the dotty Mrs. Smith (pronounced BLAHR-fen-gar) reports that "The names were all

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Thanks for the tip, Mark. Does anyone know if anything similar exists for forms in Hungary (some of the German terms on the Galician forms are are also on the Hungarian records forms I've seen, but

Yes, I think so. This is a case where "the ears have it." Ear shape and also hairline shapes tend to be pretty individual and distinctive. I worked as a photo archivist for more than 25 years and

Hi Erika, I'm not sure if all of JewishGen's Research Divisions handle their introductions in the same way, but each data set within the Holocaust Database has its own "Introduction". The purpose of

The name HOLLAND was on the Ellis Island manifest because that name was inscribed on the embarkation manifest, not because of anything the older brother said.

The legend in my family is that when a relative named Baum was asked their last name their accented reply sounded like Bum. The immigration officer (I don't remember if this was in England or the US)