Bohemian Rhapsody

Question

The great-grandfather of Majel Barrett Roddenberry was born in Bohemia as Joseph Hendrech. He changed his name legally to Hendrick..

So, last name at birth Hendrech. But , since his name was changed legally , would Hendrick go under "current last name" instead of "other last names" ?

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Eddie, any idea where in Bohemia? Would like to look at the original as Hendrech doesn't strike me as particularly Czech, Hendrich would be much more common.

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U. S. Census records for the family just say either Bohemia or Austria. The "Hendrick"  and "Hudec" (Majel's other line - also Bohemian -) all came to Cleveland Ohio circa 1880. 

This is my Majel free space page with research notes if you would like to study it.  I only started digging last night so there's not very much documented yet. Thanks for any help.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Majel_Barrett_notes

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At the 50th anniversary Star Trek convention, they had a special memoriam booklet with Majel's ancestors and most of the names in the notes came from that . The other names, I called the Cleveland State University Library .

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Most Czechs emigrated through Hamburg or Bremen. It's a reach, but checking the Hamburg passenger lists on Ancestry might help if they went that way. Those passenger lists often have a "last lived" town listed. Otherwise it would be basically impossible to find their hometown unless other documents show up.

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I would say it was the current Last name, it was his legal name at the time of his death.

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Thank you , Dale. That's my thinking. All his docs in Cleveland use Hendrick including his tax records .