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re: Went down the ancestry rabbit hole: Why would someone change spelling of last name?
Posted on 12/22/21 at 2:18 pm to weagle99
Posted on 12/22/21 at 2:18 pm to weagle99
One of my great grandfather's immigrated from Sicily to West Virginia and became a coal miner. The Italian spelling of his last name was Ianni. Some West Virginia official spelled his last name Yoney. I can only guess he didn't know how to write and someone wrote it down how it sounded.
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