Re: meanwhile, back at Ellis Island . . .

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

So, here's a question.  Why don't all the people who know their names were
changed from something change it back to what it was originally?  Okay, I know
last names were imposed upon us in the first place, but Sean Ferguson, for
cryin' out loud!?!?!?
Lorele

Seth Austen wrote:

> on 2/28/01 10:44 AM, George Robinson at GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net wrote:
>
> > For years and years my father would tell me that the Robinson came from
> > the English branch of the family -- and in fact I do have English
> > cousins, but their name is Green and like a complete schmuck I never
> > questioned this little discrepancy. Then one night my wife (then of only
> > a few months) and my father are shmoozing in my parents house and she
> > asks, "Robinson, what kind of Jewish name is that?" and he replies,
> > "Well we think it was Rabinowitz and they changed it at Ellis Island."
> > I'm in the doorway when I hear this and I yell at him, "What happened to
> > the English branch of the family?" He replies, "What are you talking
> > about? Their name is Green."
>
> Great story. My father remarried to a Green, her family is Jewish from
> Kentucky, probably no relation to your Greens...
>
> >>>
> >>> George Richard Robinson (Now THERE'S a really authentic Jewish name!)
>
> Seth Austen (another of those really Jewish sounding last names, originally
> was Aisenberg and Grafman before it got changed. It really drove me crazy at
> KlezKanada, all these people who thought I was a goy, oy vey)
>
> --
> Seth Austen
>
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> emails: seth (at) sethausten(dot)com
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