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Subject: [NYKINGS] INS Changing Immigrant Names
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:38:23 EST

The U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has some interesting
articles on their website. Read about the age-old controversy of whether
immigrants had their names changed at Ellis Island, and if not, what might
have been the process that caused these name changes.

http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/articles/arti.htm

Click on "Changing Immigrant Names"; Naturalization of World War 1 Soldiers";
"Women and Naturalization, 1802-1940"; and other selections shown.

George

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