http://home.earthlink.net/~gverver/dnc.htm Hello all aka name hunters. Here is a URL I found on Dutch and other foreign name conversions. with a few examples. Americanizing a name only to have a Census taker misspell it. A lot of mothers gave the census taker pet names. I am a William but as a child I was called Billy. Which I didn't particularly like, as the girl version was Billie. To tease I would get the song "Oh where have you been Billy Boy" So there is always reasons to go by an AKA name. Even if by a Napoleonic Decree Many of the gals in my line never went by their real given names. This is a good bookmark for Genealogy. Lots of Luck. Bill from Ohio