[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] writing family history

[Mike McHenry]

This sort of discussion always makes wonder how they managed to get these
names right in ships manifests. My ancestors all came by way of the North
German Lloyd Line. I have always assumed the ships officers were German and
they prepared the manifest. On the recent posting by me on Lodz, the
manifest spelled it without a diacritic. How would a German immigrant
pronounce it to the ships officer?

                                        Mike

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
Frank
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:57 PM
To: Irene König; rlyster at telusplanet.net
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] writing family history

At 10:40 AM 19/11/2006, Irene König wrote:
>rlyster at telusplanet.net schrieb am 19.11.2006 
>16:41 Uhr: > > Lotsch = Litzmanstadt   or is it 
>Lodz ?  (Spellings please) The name of the town 
>is Łódź. It was Litzmannstadt between 1940 
>and 1945. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodz irene



Irene's text got messed up because our mailing 
list will not transmit special characters.

The fully correct spelling for Lodz is to 
reproduce the Polish character L with a slash 
through it.  The approximate sort of almost 
pronunciation of it is something like "vwudge" but don't hold me to that.
:-)

If you want to show it correctly in your family 
history book, you can do so by inserting it as a 
special character in most word processors.



Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca  




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