In a message dated 10/29/2004 6:41:56 AM Mountain Standard Time, MDWASHIN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: MDWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com There may be a problem finding some Focklers after the 1910 census. During WWI many changed the name from the German spelling to the English Falkner. I received this information from a Falkner friend whose family is from Nichols Co West Virginia. I had sent him some information I found on the Falkners in Washington Co Md. Being so close to West Virginia I thought there may be a connection. I hope this will some way help you in your search. You never know what you are going to find just by talking to friends, I have known this family for almost 30 yrs and never knew their name had been changed. Below is his reply Interesting, but my father's family name was Fockler until 1917 in WW I when they changed it from German spelling to English. He had 9 siblings, some changed spelling, some didn't. Dad was 11 then. In 1919, at 13, he went to work in coal mines and changed his name so he could get a job.