In a message dated 11/21/2006 10:53:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, BikerJudy@aol.com writes: How funny with everyone's misspellings! The only time I find a misspelling is when they have read the writing wrong. Greetings, Yes, I have run across that often when the original was written using the German form of the letters. The American reader then reads it wrong. I have seen Schauer as Schaner; Miller as Hiller, Raidt as Rayos. Raith once came out as Laith because the man who wrote the name on the manifest probably heard the heavy trilled German R as an L. Also when did Germany adopt uniform spelling? Was that after 1900? Also remember that Bavaria is a land unto itself. It is not called the Free State of Bavaria for nothing. Clifford Louis Bischoff half Pommer / Half Bayer