My grandfather's surname

I 'd like to continue on with my blog today -- the subject of my Americanized surname!

My grandfather's surname is "Eng" (as in the Chinese character, number five), and his given birthname -- phonically in English is"Chin Din." In the Chinese written language, the surname is always preceded and is written first, Eng -- then followed by writing the first birth-name (Chin), and second birth-name (Din), e.g. Eng Chin Din. Upon entry into America, immigration officials inadvertently gave him identity papers that read first name "Eng", middle name "Chin", and last name "Din." This is the Americanized version of my family's surname of Herbert C. Din.

My parents never bothered to legally change or correct my current surname in the U.S. Courts.

My grandfather as a young man worked at building the American transcontinental railroad to the West Coast in his twenties and upon completion of the railroad moved to the East Coast of the United States. He lived in the Massachusetts area of New England, worked and died in his earlly thirties working in the field of hand-washing laundry work. There was much discrimination of foreign workers in those early days of our new republic! Laundry work -- that was the limited opportunity for displaced workers after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. My grandfather died in the United States while my grandmother was still living in the rural village area of China. She never immigated to the United States and died in her late eighties in the British Crown Colong of Hong Kong (currently the Special Administrative District of Hong Kong in The Peoples Republic of China).

It's time for me to stop to buy take-out. I'll blog again whenever!