John Kantzer fed this fish to the penguins: > Now that's one I wouldn't have thought of. Dieber. Yeah... and since the first letter is critical in soundex lookup, I subsequently went through checking of Fieber, Kieber, and Rieber (assuming a misread B in transcription: lose the middle bar give D, lose the curves and bottom for F, top and bottom for K, and bottom for R)... Fortunately (?) I didn't find anymore oddities. I was expecting variations like Biber, Beeber, Bibber.. -- > ============================================================== < > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com | Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG < > wulfraed@dm.net | Bestiaria Support Staff < > ============================================================== < > Bestiaria Home Page: http://www.beastie.dm.net/ < > Home Page: http://www.dm.net/~wulfraed/ <

From: "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> > John Kantzer fed this fish to the penguins: > > > Now that's one I wouldn't have thought of. Dieber. > > Yeah... and since the first letter is critical in soundex > lookup, I subsequently went through checking of Fieber, Kieber, and > Rieber (assuming a misread B in transcription: lose the middle bar > give D, lose the curves and bottom for F, top and bottom for K, and > bottom for R)... Fortunately (?) I didn't find anymore oddities. > > I was expecting variations like Biber, Beeber, Bibber.. And don't forget to look for Beaver too. Am researching Bieber's and have seen them listed that way in the census records. Pat "John Kantzer" <mkdoc@frognet.net>