THANK YOU JOHN, I have been lost when I go into the German web sites. Can't speaka the language. Very few give you the choice of English. My g g grandmother Maria Lynn was born in Darmstadt, Germany and I haven't a clue as to how to find her there. Other than to hire a professional (which I can't afford). So have been piecing my Christ family together bit by bit since the 70's. Wonder if they have census's like ours there and if I would be wasting my time ordering one as it would of course be in German. But have been wondering if Lynn had been changed from some German version and now I know that there were other spellings for it. Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <circlescape@gmail.com> To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] Question re german translators on this list > Hi Sandy- > > I don't have any credentials that would enable me to give you as accurate > an > answer as you'd like but maybe I can help a bit. > > I typed in the name LYNN and location Germany at familysearch.org, the > Mormon Genealogy search site. The most common forms of the name that came > back were; LINN, LIND, LINDE and LINDT. There were a couple instances of > LYNN and LYNDE. > > Using the letter "I" in a surname spelling would be far more common than > using the letter "Y". That is just my conclusion from many years of German > family research. > > If you go to RootsWeb and check out their German Mail Lists, you will see > some ideal groups to join where you may be better off joining and asking > the > same question. I see there is one such group named German Surnames. That > looks like it would be a great start. > > If you do find out anything interesting, would you please share it? I'd be > interested in hearing what you may learn. > > SISU! > John in Racine WI > > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:58:21 -0800 >> From: <joe.sandy@comcast.net> >> Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] Question re german translators on this list >> To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <02dc01c73439$47a05aa0$0300a8c0@Accounting> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> I would like to know if Lynn could possibly be a German last name? If so >> I >> wonder how it would be spelled as I'm wondering if Lynn isn't an >> Americanization. >> >> Sandy P > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message