on 8/3/2000 12:44 AM, W. David Samuelsen at dsam@sampubco.com wrote: > Dietrich is sometimes Richard. Derrick > never David because it is one of common German given names. and on 8/3/2000 1:07 AM, Mark Lesmeister at mmeister@houston.rr.com wrote: > Dietrich *is* a form of Theodoric. I have not seen it used as a form of > David or Theodore, but that doesn't mean it wasn't used in that way. Well, it all depends. My great-grandfather was baptized (in Schaumburg-Lippe, not the Pfalz) Heinrich Dietrich Wilhelm Bredthauer in 1870. After he came to the United States about 1883, he came to be known as David Henry Bredthauer. -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@crosswinds.net