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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Names" 2009.08.19 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I work in an office (in Wisconsin) where I see a couple of hundred last
names an a slow day, a thousand or more on some days. Â Looking in our
database, we have over 200 people with the last name of Hahn. Â I do see
Hahn quite often!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Lucas Annear</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Madison, Wisconsin, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Â she says "f*a*ther" and "Belf*a*st" with this phonetic value, so it is</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Â indeed her equivalent of [A:].</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â People in Germany? Really???</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â Well, I might have to take this back when I consider German</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â speakers' assumption that the name means "rooster" (though this is</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> not its</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â etymology) and you get the occasional "joke" about it.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
>  Is it "überhaupt" legally possible to change a surname in the U.S.?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Here in</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â Belgium it is, but it does cost you some money.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â Yes, it is, and it's pretty easy. Also, you can change it to pretty much</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â anything. Yes, there's a process, and it involves a fee. However, I could</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â have done it for "free" when I became a US citizen (which I didn't consider</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â because my original name is registered in two other countries).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Â Seattle,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Names<br><br>Thanks loads, Luke. That figures, especially in Wisconsin with its particularly high percentage of people of German background.<br><br>Add to this all the people called Haan, de Haan and so forth, mostly people with roots mostly in the Netherlands, some of them in Belgium and Germany.<br>
<br>A couple of weekends ago I bought some clothes in a department store. As I handed the cashier my card he said he was ready to charge it to "the party". "What party?" "The Hahn party." "I don't know about that." "Oh, I thought you were with those folks there." It turned out that the couple was ordering clothes for a wedding under the name Hahn.<br>
<br>I chatted with them. The paternal side of t he gentleman was from central Lower Saxony and arrived in the US three generations ago.<br><br>There must be a nest somewhere ...<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br>
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