[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Surname spelling changes

Annegret Krause krause.annegret at t-online.de
Thu Jul 17 00:48:30 PDT 2003


The spelling changes of the name Krueger show, what I ment. Kryger is
the Polish variant of Krueger. In Polish language "y" has to be
pronounced like a short "i".
The long "i" (spelled "ie" ) is the Low German pronunciation of long
umlauted "u". They themselves pronounced their name "Krieger".
So you can find the spelling Kryger and Krieger not only in immigration
documents, but also in Polish and Russian documents.
Annegret



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