TENAYAHH - Ellis Island

[Guest guest]

Vicki,

What about the census? I believe the 1930 census has recently become

available, not to mention the earlier censuses.

And maybe parish records? I'm assuming the family was Catholic?

Re changing names, I have a friend with the lovely last name of

Copenhagen. Turns out that her German grandfather decided as they were

leaving Europe from that city that they would change their German name

for the name of the city where their freedom began. At 1/16 Danish,

I'm more Danish than my friend with the Danish name!

On the Ellis Island website there's an article by a researcher who

tried something like 16 different variations of the spelling of her

Slavic last name. I hope your researcher tried some variations of your

family's surname. Might be worth a try.

Tenayahh

>

>

> Yep, I checked there and even had a guy look at the records.... but,

> they weren't listed at all. We now feel that they must have changed

> there name after they arrived here or before (probably before). My

dad

> and the other kids were born in Chicago and there is no record of

them

> being born in that city. NONE! My dad as a little boy watched

his

> uncle get shot to death as he sat in the barber chair getting a

shave.

> Can you imagine....

>

> Vicki

[Guest guest]

HI Tenayahh

Thanks for the web site of " Little Italy "

Very interesting...

****What about the census?***

Yep, checked that and nothing is listed.

****And maybe parish records?****

Yep, checked all the Catholic churches and nothing there either... Some

records had been destroyed by fire in the the early days..

****On the Ellis Island website there's an article by a researcher who

tried something like 16 different variations of the spelling of her

Slavic last name.****

The guy that did the hunting for me on the Ellis Island site did spell

it every way he knew how. AT this point, we think they had come into

the country under another name then changed it. If we only knew what

that name was... and who knows why they did the name change.

Thanks for the impute though.

Vicki