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One of my grandparents (now deceased) was an immigrant to the US from Europe. He arrived in Ellis Island in the 20's. The name listed on his ship manifest was in line with his birth certificate. I am told that the immigration officers were quite friendly to him, and assisted him in changing his name into something more American sounding. His naturalization papers have his new name on them. The paper trails are consistent, showing his place and date of birth as before, even after the name change. It's just the name change itself I cannot find. I am now unexpectedly put in a situation where I need to find the record of his name change for legal reasons. How can I do that? Or barring that, prove he is still the same person as the name with his arrival manifest (such as legal documents stating his current name and birth name). If it helps: If it helps, he ran a high powered law firm that churned out some famous people. Before that (during WW2) he was a merchant marine for the US as well as an amateur welterweight boxer who apparently did quite well for himself. Update found a ~2 month range in 1921 where the name change likely occurred and the city where it likely happened (NYC). Reached out to the folks working the archives at that city for advice. diadem fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jul 26, 2020 |
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Jul 26, 2020 14:51
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I believe Ellis Island records alone are very limited in the information they have. Did he ever become a U.S citizen? You can try to get his records from USCIS. Also depending on the year the state of New York archives may have more records of his citizenship application. State records are often more complete then the feds. With luck they might explicitly mention the name change. Depending on what you need it for it might be enough to build up documentation that all the records you have refer to the same person. For dual citizenship if the data matches between documents (birthplace, birthdate etc.) besides the name this is usually enough proof. If you're doing this for dual citizenship I can give you more pointers.
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