Suggestion: click the search engine www.google.com enter Theodoricus and discover: THEODERICH =Theodericus, Diedericus, Deodericus, Teodericus, Dietrich, Dieter, but never David, Richard or ........ Hans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Eggert" <EggertJ@crosswinds.net> To: <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [PFALZ] Question > 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 > > ______________________________