Meyer Cherney (Chernokovsky) - Are Sam Chernoff and Meyer Cherney brothers?

Started by Jeffrey Ryan Chernoff on today
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Sam was married in 1909 and Meyer was married in 1906. From these certificates, it seems apparent that they are brothers:
1. Very similiar last names
2. They lived a few doors down from one another
3. Mayer signed Sam's marriage certificate as a witness
4. Both certificates list father as Abraham and mother as Nechema
Questions:
1. Why they didn't they "anglicize" the same last name. I have searched nothing on Ancestry.com, so that could clear everything up. I have not found either of their immigration records which probably are on Ancestry, but from census records, they immigrated on different years.
2. Where there any other siblings?
3. Was Meyer's last name actually Cherney? It is listed very differently on numberous records.

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