- Surnames appear to be "lost" with each generation of humans (typically through marriage or lack of procreation). Is the pool of last names slowly shrinking over time? Are we converging to a small subset of last names? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island#Records 21 comments askscience
- Great grandpa was full of it: "A myth persists that government officials on Ellis Island compelled immigrants to take new names against their wishes...In fact, no historical records bear this out." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ellis_island#records 4 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- Donating His Estate to the Wikimedia Foundation: The Story of Jim Pacha – Diff https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/12/the-story-of-jim-pacha/ 18 comments
- Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ellis-islands-forgotten-final-act-as-a-cold-war-detention-center 6 comments
- Carnival of the Bureaucrats #6 – purple motes http://purplemotes.net/2007/01/02/carnival-of-the-bureaucrats-6/ 1 comment
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