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Originally Posted by jester
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The evolution of language, pronunciation, coupled with illiteracy and misspelling would cause names to change. And then translated from one language to the other, or just spelling it phoneticaly, and that is how our family name changed when we came to the U.S. because here the sound starts with "W" and not the "OUE"
And again the evolution of languages and spelling. Anyone try reading things written in their original form from the 16th Century, or how about from the 10th Century.
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I know my grand father was the only one to retain his original name among his family. A clerk made a mistake and the state always refused to admit it despite proofs and legal documents. Became a problem when his father died.