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From: Robert Ziegler <>
Subject: Re: german surnames
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 21:30:47 GMT


> Please use "ue" instead of "u. Remember the Umlaut is not
> always used -- as in Goethe. I think it confuses people who don't
> have a knowledge of German and its pronunciation practices.
> Germans on the net use ue, or ae, or oe, because of the English
> keyboard.
>
> Sincerely,
> ILse Flick
>
>
>
>
My mother's maiden name was Eslinger. Do you have anything on that name? I
have found variant spellings of Esslinger and Aslinger for the name. Do you
know anything about this?

Thank you,

Robert G. Ziegler

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