On Friday, September 1, 2000, Dora Smith <tiggernut_48@yahoo.com> wrote: > My father's people had a strange streak. Forgot he was half German, for > instance. It got changed to French. In the U.S. and Great Britain, denial of German ancestry, at least of recent vintage, was very common in the 1910s, due to World War I and the anti-German feeling it engendered. Many people anglicized or otherwise changed their inherited German surnames. The most famous case was the British monarchy, who changed the dynastic name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson phssra@physics.emory.edu