Surnames

[Rita Winston]

First, I'm going to use Dee's reply to say how much I enjoyed 
Doreen's account of the child who quizzed her on HP.

And I hope someone else is saving the chat transcript, because I have 
to leave home in an hour.

-- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Denise R" <gypsycaine at y...> wrote:

> In looking for my family tree, I cannot find any Selfs in Ireland, 
> The tale goes:
> James came over, and when he arrived, they had a desk, and the 
> queue of folks had to go to it, and give their names. 
> 
> Someday I will determine if that story is true or not! 

The Mormons kindly put the Ellis Island passenger lists on line:
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

It's a very busy website and I am too impatient to keep trying over 
and over until succeeding in accessing it, but Tim checked for me 
and he found my paternal grandmother Ellen (nee) Monty in 1910 at 
age 24 (I recall that she was born in 1886, so that fits). He 
couldn't find my paternal grandfather, and I ought to search for him 
myself some day.