Does anyone have information on the Bloomberg/Blumberg families in Philadelphia? They arrived about 1860. A branch went to Boston around 1900. Thanks. Robert Bloomberg

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Peter Cohen--excellent analysis. I especially found your comment "We have yet to see anyone come forward and say something along the lines of an uncle telling their niece or nephew "I know your father

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Yale--Thank you. Well said, well analyzed. My objection has been to the absolute position (never ever ever happened) of the no name change at Ellis Island advocates. You have certainly raised enough q

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Exactly my point: "There are instances of immigrants who changed their names, but the ship manifests were not the place where the changes happened... [then where?] Ellis?] although in some cases, an i

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According to the Philip Sutton article, immigration officials asked questions of immigrants--something that almost all of the posts here deny. The Philip Sutton article does not mention name tags, whi

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Well, at least someone admits that the system wasn't perfect.

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I agree. Names were changed at point of departure. I do not agree that the officials at Ellis Island NEVER NEVER NEVER made a mistake

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I think you missed several posts. Long ago the idea that names were changed on purpose was put to rest. No one's name were changed against their will

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Obviously the name was written at the point of departure. I believe I said that in one of my posts. That doesn't mean that names weren't written illegibly, spelled incorrectly, heard incorrectly.

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Once again, a perfect, flawless system. I am surprised we haven't copied it in other places. Just think: Any errors occurred before the immigrant arrived. All immigrants had name tags that corresponde

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I did not say that anyone wrote a name down. What I said was that people make mistakes, especially when overwhelmed, over worked and maybe not paying strict attention. Name tag or no, manifest or no,

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If the name on the manifest is the name they used--ALWAYS--then help me out please. I've looked at literally hundreds of ship manifests. I can decipher some, but nowhere near all, the names. And I hav

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The myth of intentional name changing has been proved false. The discussion is about inadvertent, accidental name changes. A vociferous, adamant group insists that never, never never happened. All the

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Many people insist, vigorously, that names were never changed at Ellis Island. So clearly, your great grandfather was mistaken. His name really was Berg.

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But according to a large number of people, immigration officials did not write down anyone's name--they simply checked their name off on the ship's manifest. But it seems to me that the multitudinous

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Peter, Well said. To say that name changes at Ellis Island NEVER happened is as wrong as it is to say that all name changes were the result of immigration officials willfully changing names. With mill

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I think we are getting very defensive. I haven't seen anyone who claims that names were intentionally, willfully changed. I don't believe they were. What I think many are saying is that the system, an

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It would be naive to think that every ship manifest was clearly readable. And it would be naive to think that every immigration officer, translator and immigrant spent enough time and cared enough to

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I am researching the Newman/Maiman/Nayman family who lived in Bangor Maine and Waterbury, Connecticut. His first name was Harry/Chaim. He was married to Ida/Adel/Adelle Katz. Does anyone have any info

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Does anyone have information on the location of the town or village of Kisenovich (or variation thereof), possibly in Romania?

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