Did your ancestors change their last name upon coming to North America?

Question:

Did your ancestors change their last name upon coming to North America?

Or did they change it at any time while residing in North America?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My family's name was changed after arriving. My great-grandfather came her at the age of 9 with his 18 year old sister. Neither of them was literate. Whomever filled out their paperwork in Bremen couldn't understand their thick Polish accents and misspelled the family name. The two only used it for the first few months they were here. His sister used that spelling on her marriage license (she came here to marry her boyfriend). By the next record I can find on them (the 1884 Michigan state census), the current spelling was in use. It's actually closer to the original spelling, though still far from what was on their Castle Clinton records.