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HelpRe: How do you go from Andrews to Anderson?
in reply to a message by Emezli
For what it's worth, it's also possible some transliteration that just ended up getting stuck in place.
I have an ancestor named Anders, and naturally there was an Anderson somewhere in the surname mix. Anders is a Scandinavian form of Andrew, so it's not hard to see where someone might have anglicized or de-anglicized a name.
Anderson and Andrews are honestly very close, and some far more creative surname changes occurred when immigrants arrived in the United States a century ago.
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I have an ancestor named Anders, and naturally there was an Anderson somewhere in the surname mix. Anders is a Scandinavian form of Andrew, so it's not hard to see where someone might have anglicized or de-anglicized a name.
Anderson and Andrews are honestly very close, and some far more creative surname changes occurred when immigrants arrived in the United States a century ago.
put a smile on your face - make the world a better place (:
