Dear List, Could someone inform me as to the usage and rules of female surname suffixes? I have one family of LENTZ, where I have seen some of the females listed as "Lentzen". I have another family SCHLOSSER, where some of the females are called "Schlossern". Is the "en" added only to married females, or can it apply to maiden names also? Particularly, an old family Bible suggests that one ancestral surname is "Wheaton". Is this a German surname? I am trying to determine if it may not be the case that the name is "Witt", and thus the lady is 'Witten', rather than 'Wheaton'. Cheers, Gregg Bonner