I would suspect immigration misspelled it. JR Jamieson jr@jjamieson.com 412 343 9264 Home of the Steeler Nation ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Thompson" <lt0168@epix.net> To: "Allegheny Mailing list" <paallegh@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 1:51 PM Subject: [ALL] Name changes > Hi group: > One of my lines is a Forrester family that was in Allegheny City. I > found where they were buried in Union Dale Cemetery. On one of the > headstones it has that he was born in Kircolm, Scotland. His brother has > that he was born in Gallowayshire Scotland. Gallowayshire is the county > where Kirkcolm is located. I got the church records from the Kirkcolm > church and found the baptismal and marriage records for the family, > except they were all listed as Foster. Then I found the immigration > record for the parents and one son, which again listed them as Foster. > But once they arrived in the US all of the records list them as > Forrester, including the headstone for the parents. > Any idea why the family would have changed names when they got here? > > Larry > -- > My genealogy page > http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ > Allegheny County Maps page > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/ > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi group: Let me dispel a commonly held myth. Immigrations did not change peoples names. When a ship pulled into a U.S. port the ships captain was required to have a manifest of all passengers. If anyone has searched ancestry or the Ellis Island site you can find these manifests. Immigration took the names off of these lists and then matched the people coming off the ship to that manifest. My father-in-law is typical of people who had their name changed, but not by immigrations. On the Ellis Island record his name was Majdanik, which is the name from Poland. I'm in contact with his family there to verify that. However, my father-in-law was illiterate and did not no how to spell his name. Just about every record I've found his name is spelled differently. My wifes name on her birth certificate is Madenich. Larry On 12/23/2010 1:49 PM, JR Jamieson wrote: > I would suspect immigration misspelled it. > > > JR Jamieson > > jr@jjamieson.com > 412 343 9264 > > Home of the Steeler Nation > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Thompson"<lt0168@epix.net> > To: "Allegheny Mailing list"<paallegh@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 1:51 PM > Subject: [ALL] Name changes > > >> Hi group: >> One of my lines is a Forrester family that was in Allegheny City. I >> found where they were buried in Union Dale Cemetery. On one of the >> headstones it has that he was born in Kircolm, Scotland. His brother has >> that he was born in Gallowayshire Scotland. Gallowayshire is the county >> where Kirkcolm is located. I got the church records from the Kirkcolm >> church and found the baptismal and marriage records for the family, >> except they were all listed as Foster. Then I found the immigration >> record for the parents and one son, which again listed them as Foster. >> But once they arrived in the US all of the records list them as >> Forrester, including the headstone for the parents. >> Any idea why the family would have changed names when they got here? >> >> Larry >> -- >> My genealogy page >> http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ >> Allegheny County Maps page >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/ >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- My genealogy page http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ Allegheny County Maps page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/