Message: "Re: Dash/Hungarian"

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[Facts] Re: Dash/Hungarian

by Nanaea

11/9/2001, 5:52 AM

Sorry I can't help you with the nickname, as it could be a totally new name which your great-grandfather picked up or which was given to him by friends when he became "Americanized".

Have you tried searching the U.S. Federal Census records? If your grandfather went by his actual name in the first few years after immigrating to America, you may find out what that name was in those records.

-- Nanaea

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- Rosalinda Lauren Snow :-) (guest) +1

11/9/2001, 2:22 PM

other things our ancestors did to mess up genealogical research...

Some of my ancestors, who came from Sweden, had the last name Anderson (or Andersen? one of those). Since they didn't want to have such a "common" last name, they changed it...

to Clark.

Sigh.

- karenr (guest)

11/9/2001, 3:46 PM

Thank you

Thanks for your input. My mom thinks that his name was Dash, and it wasn't a nickname. His son was named Dash, too. Maybe they didn't enter the US via Ellis Island. I need to find another port-of-entry!

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