Identifying an Americanized Russian name: Sonet

[Jules Levin]

On 04.05.2014 12:41, Margaret Samu wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> An acquaintance wrote with the following question that I did not know 
> how to answer:
>
> "I am trying to help a friend with her husband's family tree.  His 
> great grandfather came from Russia around 1890 and when he arrived his 
> last name was changed to Sonet.  Do you have any ideas of Russian 
> names that might have been changed to Sonet?  I figure it was probably 
> a longer name. Possible spellings of the start of possible names would 
> be helpful."

This woman needs to get involved in genealogy.  There are plenty of web 
sites.  Does she have all the family information with complete names as 
is known?  For example, does she have this ggf's full name from his 
tombstone?  How does he show up in the US Census of 1900, 1910?  Is 
there an application for citizenship?
My ggf came in 1891, and the name was changed.  But unknown to any 
descendents, the new name appeared only in the census of 1900.  In his 
application for citizenship in 1897, the original name was used!  With 
due respect to my esteemed colleagues, SEELANGS is not the place to deal 
with this problem!   She needs to record all family data (the tombstone 
info for all descendents who are dead, for example--and contact the 
cemeteries--all info is on line.  Then get involved with ancestry.com, 
for example--they found my ggf's citizenship application.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles
PS If the ggf was Jewish, she should start with Jewishgen.





>
> My first thought is that it is not necessarily a Russian name, though 
> if the family is certain that it was changed from something else, then 
> it might have been. If you have any suggestions, please do let me know.
>
> Best regards,
> Margaret
>
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