Hi Carole, Do not get hung up on the spelling of names especially when you get father back into Germany. Many of our ancestors could not read or write. Their name was spelled the way the "scribe" heard it. Sometimes there are wild fluctuations in the way the names a spelled. Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- > I was searching for several years for information on my grandfather, Louis > Charles Weisbrodt with out any luck at all. He was an only child. I complained to my father and he said "Didn't I tell you that Grandpa added a t' to his name?"