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Ancestry/Genealogy

PoindexterOglethorpe

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6. Yep.

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 13, 2018, 10:24 AM

Jul 2018

And until relatively recently, it was quite easy for people to simply start using a new name, without bothering with a formal name change. The most obvious is example is women taking their husband's surname at marriage. No formal paperwork needed, the DMV and SS readily allowed such changes, and multiple ones at that for women who married more than once. And people were very casual about putting nicknames on legal paperwork. Not a problem until this Real ID nonsense.

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Immigrant Name Changes [View all] no_hypocrisy Jun 2018 OP

Some reasons are simple and straight forward. Delmette2.0 Jun 2018 #1

Some, if not most of the Ellis Island name change stories are bogus. 3Hotdogs Jun 2018 #2

I have always thought that the stories of names being changed at Ellis Island to be PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #4

Ellis Island staff said that names could be easily changed once you left the island. 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #5

Yep. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #6

All of my female ancestors/relatives from Italy were listed by maiden and not their married names wishstar Jul 2018 #3

I have name changes on both maternal and paternal sides. Ellis Island wasn't involved. LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #7