Not to mention names change based on case and possessive use, in languages other than modern English. You ever get back to old enough English it happens there too. Since it's just another Germanic language in origin. Brian On Sun, August 14, 2011 10:10 pm, Narda Iulg wrote: > Latin does the same, 'in' for women and 'en' for men. > Narda > > On 14 August 2011 18:17, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me why a man's surname would be Stahl in his 1733 death >> record, but be called Stahlen in his wife's death record? >>