See, Joan that was what I was thinking exactly, Joan, that's what I was wondering myself! The middle name of the mother was Stella, & so thought that was the case, but not sure! I guess I'll assume that's the case, until I can find, IF I FIND soemthing that might have it in print!! Thanks!! Like minds, I guess!! Anyone know of a webpage that might have German names, that might translate names from old scripts? That's going to bug me until I know for sure!! Cathy -----Original Message----- >From: JYoung6180@aol.com >Sent: Aug 18, 2007 9:37 AM >To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Efftla? > > >In a message dated 8/18/2007 8:54:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, >karenmfox@verizon.net writes: > >Hi Cathy, > >Just a hunch, but when I said 'Efftla' out loud, the first thing that came >to mind is that it >was Esther and whoever wrote the obit either had a very bad typo or didn't >understand >the accent and wrote what they thought they "heard". Kind of how we come >across all >those crazy misspellings in the census records. > >~Karen from Berks. > > > >----- >I just wonder if the name wasn't taken from old script where the esses can >look like efs. If the name was written out in longhand it could well just >have been Estella. > >Joan > > > >************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at >http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Doing Names: Brothers, Cain, Coleman, Davis, Embree, McKain, McKinnon, Merriman, Palmer, Plummer, Raber, Stevens, Wright