Jean stated: >The Germans don't make the "w" sound that the English do. They >pronounce their "w" like the English pronounce a "v". The Germans >pronounce the "v" sound like the English pronounce an "f". Velir would >sound like feh-leer. The closest thing I could think of for an >Anglicized version would be Felix. The name would sound like feh-leer only if actually physically written by the German testator himself. If you make the assumption that the will, presumably written in English, was written by English clerk, then then when a German pronounced the name Weller to the the attorney who wrote out the will, it would, as you note, sound more like "Velir," the name written in the will. Rick Saunders