I know, it's amazing the ignorance back then. And his brother didn't question or correct the teacher because he was after all the immigrant. It's a shame. Denise De Freitas D'Antona NY In a message dated 1/24/2007 10:00:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, david-nancy.degrella@juno.com writes: For my great grandfather, the US Army records has his name as DeGrilla. At least, no school teacher every tried to tell us our name was spelled wrong. David DeGrella Tennessee USA