The Germans I have found named Francis were really latin Fanciscus in the Church records. ----- Original Message ----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:00 PM To: MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDFred] Migration to Frederick County In a message dated 11/5/02 5:07:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, jmh2294@msn.com writes: > Some of my later Germans in Baltimore were named Francis and called Frank. Joanne- I have yet to see a German 'Francis' born in the 1760s or earlier--which this 'Francis' would have to have been--unless, of course, he was originally Frantz and the name was Americanized to Francis along the way--but why not just Frank then? "Francis" could have entered the picture after a family was in America long enough to have intermarried with non-Germans and named children after non-German family members but I don't find it at all in the early Germans who had just arrived in America (appearing on the ship lists). Joan ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== Come on over to the Maryland Roots Network at: http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237