What Country is your research ?

[Redroger]

That's the set thanks Pels, hope the link points them in the right direction.

[marcie dean]

 I have found someone on Ancestry with the name of Taggart, he very kindly told me where his people came from in Ireland, asked me where my Mary Taggart was from, for which I had to say I did not know;  but it gives me more searching materials and areas to see if I can find her and her parents etc.

marcie

[chiboy]

I just wonder! Last year I had some German WW1 postcards translated on this site. A town involved was Stargard in Pomerania.

Thank you Redroger. That's just brilliant. I already had some Jewish friends puzzled over the non-Jewish sounding name of Stargratt. Your suggestion is totally worth my checking.
Do I remember correctly a scene in The Godfather where a young immigrant to the U.S. is asked at Ellis Island for his name and the boy, not understanding English and guessing at the meaning of the question, replies 'Corleone', the name of his native town in Sicily.
That's exactly what could have happened to my ancestors on entry at Liverpool in 1838 (abt.) - they possibly gave the name of where they had come from instead of their own names. Perhaps their real (Jewish) family name is somewhere on an immigration form under 'place of origin'.
Thanks again.

[sylvia]

Seems a lot of Irish changed their names when they arrived in England.I dont know who i am searching for any more since it seems  my Delaney clan weren't actually Delaney in Ireland.One source says they were Fitzpatrick,and another source says they were Oshaugnessy.
I think i am giving up on those rascally name changing  Delaney's

[Redroger]

Chiboy: I believe from memory the conversation at Ellis Island went: immigration Officer (reading label) Vito Andolini from Corleone, clerk Vito Corleone, and the rest is cinema history. I agree, this happened a lot, and no doubt still does. Please see email regarding Stargard postcards.

[Redroger]

Seems a lot of Irish changed their names when they arrived in England.I dont know who i am searching for any more since it seems  my Delaney clan weren't actually Delaney in Ireland.One source says they were Fitzpatrick,and another source says they were Oshaugnessy.
I think i am giving up on those rascally name changing  Delaney's

A problem i have is that Loughman from Ireland spell it that way, Luffman from England this way. No problem till they meet, and some Luffman's like and adopt the other spelling, then confusion reigns!

[marcie dean]

Seems a lot of Irish changed their names when they arrived in England.I dont know who i am searching for any more since it seems  my Delaney clan weren't actually Delaney in Ireland.One source says they were Fitzpatrick,and another source says they were Oshaugnessy.
I think i am giving up on those rascally name changing  Delaney's

Have you any names which are sensible from ireland who may be connected to them, you may be lucky trying some of those to find a connection.  Slim chance I know.
marcie

[sylvia]

I really would liked to have followed my Irish ancestry, brings a bit of interest to the family tree. Since it was common for them to do this name changing, probably most of them did it. I have noted who was around them in the  census’s and they always had mobs of Irish families around them, I suppose any of them could have been family members  but you have to be dead certain they are Marcie. I don’t think there is any way to be that certain.
!SIGH! 

[Redroger]

My Luffman/Loughman spelling problems originate in the later 19th/early 20th centuries so they are not due to illiteracy.