[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] name variation spellings

[Nelson Itterman]

Hi:
I think the people doing the extraction were doing the best they could. What
you must remember is that many people in those years did not know
how to read or write. They would say their name but did not how to spell it.
The person doing the recording guessed at the spelling and wrote what they
heard.
Nelson

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Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] name variation spellings

I have to agree with Karl - there simply were no spelling rules until late  
in the 19th Century, and even when established, often ignored - and many 
still  are, on top of misreading, mishearing, Anglicizing and translating to

another language - or changing to an entirely different  name..    It just 
wasn't important.   I usually suggest  to genealogists that they collect 
their family names, rather than trying to  "correct" them.   I have seen
records 
in which one single person's  name was spelled 6 different ways - in one 
paragraph!    
 
So thanks, Karl - you pointed out an important facet of research I  
neglected to mention.
 
Maureen Schoenky
 
 
In a message dated 5/23/2011 11:39:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
dabookk54 at yahoo.com writes:

There  were many people that extracted this information. I doubt they tried 
to  standardize names so they went by how the name was written on the 
records.  What you see probably reflects different pastors or kantors or
even the 
 variations by a person who was not consistent in his spelling from one 
year to  the next.
Karl



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From:  James <jageike at msn.com>
To:  ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:41  PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] name variation spellings

Hi,
I  have recentely found several relatives in the Oddessa site st pete files.
I  have determined that Gaike, Gayke, Goike are all the same people. my 
qwestion  is would the person making up the report for the St Pete records
have 
spelled  Geike phonetically  ie.  Gaykey
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