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Two Ellis Island tales:
The grandfather of a friend arrived from Czechoslovakia and the man sitting
at the desk could not spell the name, so asked an interpreter if the name had
a meaning. The guy replied the name sounded like a fruit, kind of like
"apple." So, the man arrived in America with the last name of Apple.
Another person arrived from England with a name that sounded obscene, so the
man at the table demanded another name. The English man, perplexed, replied,
" any thing." His papers in America showed his last name as "Thing." (a
version of that tale is the man requested a judge name him anything other than
his birth name, and the papers listed him as Thing).
Fortunately for me, my family slipped through Canada into the Mexican
Territory and dispensed with those silly bigoted rules.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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