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The Immigration Museum on Ellis Island, New York

Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island

Source: New York Public Library

One of America’s strengths is the way its people have come together from all over the world, many of them through Ellis Island. But the persistent myth that immigrant’s names were “Americanized” by officials at Ellis Island is false.

This entry was posted in Finding Common Ground and tagged Culture & Society, History, People on May 1, 2015 by Mikki Gibson.

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