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• Ancestry Blog - Formerly Known As…? How to Find Your Ancestors’ Name Changes

• Are Your My Cousin? - You Suspect Your Ancestor Changed His Name – Now What?

• Did Ellis Island Officials Really Change the Names of Immigrants?

  From Smithsonian Magazine

• Genealogical Musings: The "Our Name Was Changed at Ellis Island" Myth

• Genealogy Pals - How Often Did Immigrants Change Their Names?

• Genealogy.com - They Changed Our Name at Ellis Island

  Article by Donna Przecha.

• GenealogyBank - How to Find Name Change Records of Ancestors with Newspapers

• GovDocs to the Rescue! Debunking an Immigration Myth

• Heritage Discovered - 11 Smart Strategies For Searching For Ancestors Who Changed Their Name

• ILW.com -American Names: Declaring Independence

  Article by Marian L. Smith.

• Immigration Daily - American Names: Declaring Independence

  by Marian L. Smith

• Legacy Family Tree Webinars - Name Changes and the Law

  By Judy G. Russell

• Legacy News - Was Great Grandpa's Name Changed at Ellis Island?

• LegacyTree Genealogists - https://www.legacytree.com/blog/name-changes-in-genealogy-research

• MyHeritage Blog - Ellis Island: Was your name changed?

• New York State Archives - Records of Name Changes

• No Names Were Changed at Ellis Island: Debunking a Persistent Myth (RootsTech)

  by Jennifer Mendelsohn

• No, Your Ancestors' Names Were Not Changed at Ellis Island, Part 1 - Hollander-Waas Jewish Heritage Services

• No, Your Ancestors' Names Were Not Changed at Ellis Island, Part 2 - Hollander-Waas Jewish Heritage Services

• Sassy Jane Genealogy - Inspectors Did Not Change Names at Ellis Island