On May 8, 2013, at 11:33 AM, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote:
> The purported "Ellis Island" name manglings is a myth.
> Every immigrant's name had to be and was matched to the ship's manifest, and
> any deviation was massively illegal.
As was selling alcoholic beverages in the United States between
Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding dings and scuff marks on stringed instruments.
Lutes are delicate so I figured this would kind of apply for other stringed
instruments. I've got a really, really old Classical Guitar that sadly... my
brother has borrowed several times, over time it has b
I've seen some of the manifests via Ancestry.com--the handwriting is not
always too clear. My great grandfather came over from Denmark and
promptly changed his name from Jörgen Wilhelm Hansen to John William
Hansen.
On a more musical note, I once heard a family chamber group called
