Around year 2000

While doing family research on the Hay family I attempted to learn some information about my mother's family (Aho). My mother showed me some mementos saved from her father and mother. Her mother Senja Maki came to Ellis Island around 1904 on a ship that was part of the White Lines (same line as the Titantic). Her mother's last name was Rahumaki (spelling??) and was changed to Maki at Ellis. My grandfather's name as I was growing up was John P. Aho. I never knew what the P stood for. My mother told me that my grandfather's name was John Pertiaho (spelling??) and it was probably changed at Ellis Island. I believe that the last name of Aho in Finnish has a translation to mean something dealing with a field. If so, it is interesting that my mother married a Hay. Another interesting fact was found while looking at my mother's birth certificate which indicated that she had a longer name than what the family knew while growing up. Her name was Dorothy Virginia Edna Aho. The Virginia was not known by family members. When I asked my mother about it she simply replied that was her name but she never used Virginia.