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From: "Eleanor Nielsen" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Aliases
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:43:19 -0500


Thank you much, this is worth checking out especially if we could find a
similar book for New Jersey.
Eleanor

> Don't know what they did in sunny and warm Florida for aliases, but there
was
> a defiinite court procedure up north for name-changes, even in the 18th
> century I found a fascinating book at NEHGS, quite a thick one, listing
> everyone who had applied to Massachusetts courts for name changes,and
their
> reasons for it. The cases dated from the early 18th century. There is
> doubtless a similar record for those seeking name changes in other states
of
> colonial America.
>
> JHall
>
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