Family names were not changed at Ellis Island →
I was listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts today and a discussion of this came up. It turns out that we all believed that family names were changed because some of the family members used to actually say this. They figured it was an easier way to explain why they themselves chose to just simplify their names to better assimilate
The surname Gillons is extremely rare in the world, while Gillons is common. Why was it changed? Nobody in our family knows, nor is there any mythology about it. I’ll add that to my list of things to Create this year.
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