Q for American users: do you still have your original family name?

[caviezel]

do you still have your original ancestral last name or did you or anyone else in the family changed it? like Kowalski becoming Smith or Gluck becoming McFortune?

[Profileid]

Can trace my name back hundreds of years. Yes.

[Rethel]

[Smitty]

I don't know. My most distant paternal ancestor may have been from Luxembourg, which would suggest he was a Schmidt. But the only records I've seen say he was born in Pennsylvania, so he could well have been British of some sort. I doubt I'll ever know.

[PostOak1]

Boehm became Beam


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[Blue Fox]

Yes, it's the same one except one letter was changed from an "e" to an "a" for pronunciation reasons.

[Adoptee]

I'm adopted so obviously not. I have the surname of my adoptive father, I don't even know the surname of my birth parents

[dperucca]

I changed my name when I got married but it was never changed when my family immigrated to the US.

[KMack]

The same, on both sides. On my Mom's side it would have been common to shorten and Americanize it.

[Peterski]

Kowalski could also become Kovalsky.