There were likely thousands of misakes. None by Ellis Island personnel. I don't know what your understanding of what happened there is, but it seems wrong. E

There were likely thousands of misakes. None by Ellis Island personnel. I don't know what your understanding of what happened there is, but it seems wrong. Ellis Island personnel did not ask for and then reissue names to people. They checked pre-existing lists, and then those lists were filed away never to be looked again, except for by historians debunking the Ellis Island name change myth. Even if a clerk said "your name's Joe Sch'mozle now" it didn't change anything. Ellis Island personnel didn't issue a single scrap of paper to the immigrants and did not write down the name of anyone passing through. All they did was look at a list of names the ships arriving into port had, and make sure nobody not on the list came through (sans bribe).