Folks, I am (slowly) making my way through Westergaard's "The Danish West Indies" and note in his preface that he mentions these spellings. They might help for database searches. Wetergaard says he anglicized many of the names and offered this list: Christian for Christiern George for Jorgen Peter for Peder and Pieter John for Jan, Johan, Johannes and Jens Oliver for Oliger William for Wilem and Wilhelm Severin for Soren --Laura *************************** The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CARIBBEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message