{"id":182,"date":"2006-10-09T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/09\/poor-cristoforo-colombo-name-change-sel"},"modified":"2006-10-10T19:40:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T23:40:31","slug":"poor-cristoforo-colombo-name-change-self-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/09\/poor-cristoforo-colombo-name-change-self-help\/","title":{"rendered":"poor Cristoforo Colombo (name change self-help)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">The navigator who is both <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/10\/10\/its-hard-to-discover-columbus\/\">honored and defiled<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus_Day\"><strong>Columbus Day<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0never did get to Asia.\u00a0 He also never got to Ellis Island, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Americans from anglicizing his name.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0famous explorer always contended &#8212; some say to cover up a mercenary past &#8212; that he was born in Italy, which would have made his\u00a0name <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cristoforocolombosociety.com\/\">Cristoforo Colombo<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0His actual birthplace\u00a0has been in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cristoforo_Colombo#National_origin\">much dispute<\/a>, but whether\u00a0he was actually\u00a0Italian\/Genoese, or instead Portuguese\u00a0(nee\u00a0<em>Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o Colon<\/em>), Spanish (nee <em>Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n<\/em>), or Catalan (nee <em>Crist\u00f2for Colom<\/em>), one thing is certain:<em> he never called himself <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flmnh.ufl.edu\/caribarch\/columbus.htm#resum\"><em>Christopher Columbus<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"52\" alt=\"Columbus\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/10\/Columbus.gif\" width=\"40\" \/>\u00a0 Modern-day Americans have much more control over their names.\u00a0 <em>shlep<\/em> wants to remind you on Columbus Day that\u00a0there is much help\u00a0online and at courthouses (with official forms, and often instructions), should you need or want to change your name.\u00a0 For example: see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtinfo.ca.gov\/selfhelp\/other\/namechange.htm\">California Self-Help Center<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/services\/public\/selfhelp\/faqsname.htm\">Wisconsin Self-Help<\/a> webpage, and the forms available from that District called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/dccourts\/docs\/civil\/dcsc31.pdf\">Columbia<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0As always, check out\u00a0our post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/getting-self-help-help\/\">getting self-help help<\/a>, if you need assistance finding your state court websites.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<p \/><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The navigator who is both honored and defiled on Columbus Day\u00a0never did get to Asia.\u00a0 He also never got to Ellis Island, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Americans from anglicizing his name.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0famous explorer always contended &#8212; some say to cover up a mercenary past &#8212; that he was born in Italy, which would have made his\u00a0name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}