DLPS Faculty Publications

Abstract

Government workers at New York’s Ellis Island have been accused of murdering ancestral names to serve their own purposes and prejudices. Despite zero evidence to support this accusation, the myth stubbornly persists. They did not change names. They worked from manifests, which were governed by law.

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Genealogy | Higher Education | History | Library and Information Science | United States History

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