Thanks everyone for your input. Jack, thanks for a great story. And Katharina, that is interesting about the names being reversed, and that may be the case here. So I guess I would be SchaferSue....has a nice ring to it. (Maybe better than Sue Schafer since sometimes people misunderstand me and call me Sushi. There are a lot of immigrants from Asia in Seattle.) I think kisor rot pahort, may be a misspelled attempt at Kaiser Red Beard. Someone else was Black Beard and another person, well, I'll just say the name had to do with his tanned skin, reminiscent of Mark Twain. Sue Schafer Seattle