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I started looking into my family history on Ancestry and I found out that my great-great grandfather got arrested and sentenced for bigamy a year after he married my great-great grandmother. I found the actual paperwork of his admittance to Sing Sing prison with the 2 different names listed for his two marriages.

I have him in an 1880 census as a 17 year old with his family, so I know for sure that that's his actual family name. It's also not my name.

So he got out of prison and stayed with his second wife and eventually had a bunch of kids, including my great grandfather, still using the alias. So I don't know if he eventually legally changed his name or how any of it worked (like if their marriage was invalidated), but it's looking like my family name was made up.