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Thanks for your help!
I just looked at the ship manifest again after reading your comment about Malke, and even though the Ellis Island website lists the child as a male, the ship manifest clearly shows that Malke is a female! The name actually looks more like Molke, but Malka seems more likely as the family was Jewish.
It puzzles me why "Juda Hirsch" would become "I. H. Einmaldank" but at least its plausible that they were the same person because of the I.H. initials...
Thanks for your comments about the name Perl and Pauline too. It's been very confusing to me to try and figure out why our family records show her as Paula, her immigration and marriage records show Perl and 3 later census records show Pauline! It's interesting to me that we don't see my g-g-grandmother taking a Hebrew name though. She seems to have gone from Yiddish to and English name. Do you think its possible she might have had a Jewish name too, but that its just not recorded?
Thanks,
Sara
I just looked at the ship manifest again after reading your comment about Malke, and even though the Ellis Island website lists the child as a male, the ship manifest clearly shows that Malke is a female! The name actually looks more like Molke, but Malka seems more likely as the family was Jewish.
It puzzles me why "Juda Hirsch" would become "I. H. Einmaldank" but at least its plausible that they were the same person because of the I.H. initials...
Thanks for your comments about the name Perl and Pauline too. It's been very confusing to me to try and figure out why our family records show her as Paula, her immigration and marriage records show Perl and 3 later census records show Pauline! It's interesting to me that we don't see my g-g-grandmother taking a Hebrew name though. She seems to have gone from Yiddish to and English name. Do you think its possible she might have had a Jewish name too, but that its just not recorded?
Thanks,
Sara
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