Thanks for responding. Tunis Peters'mother--Catherine Quick-- had the Dutch ancestry. The name was variously spelled Petri, Patters, Peters. I'll put your data with my Quick files. Miriam ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Whitmore <ken@wacom.com.uy> To: mbshare <mbshare@mindspring.com> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 7:40 AM Subject: Re: English/Dutch/German > To add another complication to the discussion, another Dutch variant > spelling is PIETERS. The spelling PETERS is pronounced "Pay-ters" in Dutch, > but the PIETERS spelling is pronounced the same as the English PETERS > spelling. This name is pretty wide spread in the Netherlands, in both > spellings, along with PIETERSEN (son of PIETER). > > Ken Whitmore >