Alternate spellings of names goes way back. I have copies of original Colonial wills where the name of the testator, within one will, is spelled three different ways, his wife's given named spelled two different ways and one of the sons spelled two different ways. One really needs to keep this in mind when searching anything from online databases to books. Look for every alternative spelling, even if your ancestor never used it himself! But this is the fun of it all. When searching for my GRIMM I had only tried that spelling and GRIM. One day, after not finding him in one of the censuses I tried to spell it as it might have sounded with an accent to the census taker and found him as KRIMM. Never looked for that spelling before. And this is a simple name! One name I've not found anywhere, but appears in an obituary, is OPPRESTHOUSER. Anyone ever come across that name in the Baltimore, Maryland area? Susan

Hello Susan, Are you looking for the correct German spelling of Oppresthouser? The correct German spelling is Oppertshauser. I found on the 1900 census in Baltimore, MD Ward 7 John Oppertshauser, b 1826 in Germany Catharine Oppertshauser, his wife, b. 1833 in Germany. Ursula from Michigan NOSHOWCLC@aol.com wrote: > Alternate spellings of names goes way back. I have copies of original > One name I've not found anywhere, but appears in an obituary, is > OPPRESTHOUSER. Anyone ever come across that name in the Baltimore, Maryland area? > Susan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > . >