Carol, I recall reading that there was an Azorean-American family in the New Bedford area who changed their surname to Wood as part of an effort to conceal their Portugueseness (shades of my own family!). Perhaps someone in the group recalls reading more re this; I think Francis Millet Rogers discusses the family in either "Atlantic Islanders of the Azores and Madeiras" or his memoir "Internationalism and the 3 Portugals" (or both). Katharine.
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