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product_id: 1693991
title: "If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island Paperback – August 1, 1994"
brand: "ellen levinewayne parmenter"
price: "$30"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
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# If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island Paperback – August 1, 1994

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Valuable Book
*by A***K on April 18, 2025*

This is a wonderful book! It tells the stories of children immigrating to America. We bought it to go with a Heritage Scrapbook Album for the family. Through this book the family related to the children and also more related to their own ancestor's stories.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great story to teach American children how most of us came to live here. A classic.
*by B***R on February 4, 2015*

It's a great book I used YEARS ago when I was teaching 2nd grade. It hits home for me because my grandparents were all immigrants. I purchased this copy for my niece, whose 3rd grade class was studying the Pilgrims, as well as other groups of people who had many different reasons to come to America. My grandfather and his brother came through Ellis Island together and ended up with different last names. As far as I'm concerned, this story a classic.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Slightly misleading title
*by L***Y on March 16, 2010*

The book is a good way for young children to learn about the immigration process of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That being said, I absolutely MUST object to the author encouraging even more people to swallow the fable that employees at Ellis Island changed names of immigrants! It simply did not happen. Yes, I'm aware that every other family of Ellis Island immigrant descendants has their story about some arrogant clerk being unable to pronounce Wojciechowski and so the clerk informs the hapless immigrant that his new name was Smith or Miller or some other "American sounding" name. It's ridiculous on its face because there were interpreters of countless languages ready to translate for the new immigrants so that communication was simplified. Fiorello H. LaGuardia was once such interpreter. This was a federal installation and all the paperwork had to match up. The names the immigrants gave had to match up with the names on the ship's manifest. The manifests were made out in the port of origin before the ship ever set sail for America. If the immigrant wanted to change their name before they left home in order to fit in or hope for better treatment from their new neighbors, they could certainly give the name of their choice when asked. The name-change fable is an enduring one and it's rather insulting to those of us who know better, but it's even more insulting to the people who struggled to come to America and try to live life in a strange new place.Next I will attempt to wipe out the "my great-grandmother was a Cherokee princess" fairy tale. Wish me luck.

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