Aboab Family | Name Changes
Robert-Scott Ynkawen This was the name of a famous Sephardic Jewish family known for its rabbis, scholars, physicians, and merchants. Abraham Aboab Born in Aragon, he would receive a tower in Altea…
Danilo Dostoevsky | Name Changes
Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was descended from Russian nobility, specifically traced back to a Lithuanian man by the name of Danilo. Danilo Irtishch (fl. 1506) Nothing is known much about…
Kassaboom Family | Name Changes
The earliest Kassaboom (or who would become Kassaboom) can be traced in my ancestry back to a Dutchman named Evertz Karseboom. Karseboom Evertz Karseboom lived a short life in Groll,…
Catarina Zitajonez | Catherine Zeta-Jones’ What-If Name
What if Catherine Zeta-Jones' famous role gave her a new name and identity?
John Avis I Of Portugal | Name Changes
From the Portuguese city and its Military Order
Philip Melanchthon | Name Changes
This is the name change of a humanist, theologian, and educator. Philipp Schwartzerdt (1497-1507) Melanchthon was born to an armorer, Georg Schwartzerdt, and Barbara Reuter. He was raised in Latin…
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics | Brahmic Inspirations By A Missionary
It was created in 1840, by a British missionary named James Evans, which was based on the scripts for the blind--James Frere's alphabet and Thomas Lucas' shorthand script; and the…
Larry King | Name Changes
Lawrence Harvey Zeigler (1933-1959) He was born to Orthodox Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a garment worker from Lithuania and his father was a restaurant owner…
Flavius Zeno | Name Changes
From an Anatolian soldier to a Byzantine emperor.