Hi Richard, I noticed your Achenbach, and saw how you pronounced it. That is how you pronounce my one classmate's surname, also. You don't happen to be related to Michael Auchenbach, do you? My friend and I had our yearbook out, and were going over how many of our classmates were already dead, and Michael was the first to come to mind, as he was murdered by hire. His wife had him murdered right in front of his two little girls as he was putting them into his pickup truck to take them to school. This was back in the 1980s. Michael was in my homeroom through high school, at Reading High. If you are related, I have the news article here, somewhere. I thought I had it in my yearbook, still; but I must have put it into a notebook, and it's here with my research. Lynn Richard wrote: Everytime I see a name with the suffix "baugh", I am reminded of my Achenbach ancestors. Achenbach was pronounced Occhhenbocchh, where the diphthong is pronounced by clearing the throat.