Jeff Colaw <JColaw@iitri.org> wrote: >>So I might add: Kohler = Coler = Colaw ---- My *own* thought on that would be that COLAW *could* have come from the pronunciation of the name by the immigrant to what ever clerk he spoke. I had only 2 years of German "way back when", but my recollection of how the words were to be pronounced says that the LER part of the name would sound somewhat like LAW when spoken by a native of Germanic speaking Europe. ~~Leslie Kohler