I have found out that some of the Keim family changed their names after jumping ship in order not to pay their full passage when coming to America >From: Cindy Kimes <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [KEIM] Re: spellings of Kime >Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:51:21 -0700 (PDT) > >I've seen different explanations for the various spellings. > >1. "eim" spelling was the German spelling; when U.S. was fighting >against Germany, some Americans wanted to dissociate themselves from >the fatherland so changed the spelling to "ime". >You find this in many names in the U.S. i.e. Stein became Stine; >Weinsburg became Winesburg, etc. > >2. In the case of the KIMES spelling, the "s" was possibly just added >somewhere along the way. To explain, when they talked about the KIME >family down the road, they referred to them as the KIMES Family >(plural). Possibly census takers, etc. mistakenly added the "s" to >the end of KIME, making the name KIMES. And now a KIMES family in >plural are KIMESes. > >3. And, of course some of the spelling changes were due to census >takers not being familiar with the name. If no one in the family was >literate, they had to spell the name the way that seemed logical to >them. > >Terry wrote: > > > > Do you know anything about the various spellings of Kime. > > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! >http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide > > >==== KEIM Mailing List ==== >To post a query, send it to: [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/