> "because of the way > Germans pronounce Georg it was americanized to the way it > sounds...Yearick). Now I havn't > found any Georg in Germany yet. (1) Georg, George, Georges, (Latin:) Georgi, Georgius; (regional forms:) Jörg (J"org: o umlaut), Girg, Jürgen (J"urgen) is the same German surname (see Bahlow: Deutsches Namenslexikon ["German Surnames"]). (2) If you pronounce the "Year" in Yearick like the "year" in "yearn" and "ick" like in "brick" than American pronunciation of "Yearick" is similar to "Jörg" in German (somehow...). (3) Did you check German online telephone book for "Georg" or "Jörg": http://www.teleauskunft.de/. Winfrid Liebrich