Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: Mayer Family Genealogy Forum Re: Louis E. Mayer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, born 1876 Posted by: Kent Myers (ID *****4762) Date: June 06, 2009 at 23:15:05 In Reply to: Re: Louis E. Mayer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, born 1876 by Larry Myers of 840 My family changed the spelling to MYERS after they arrived in America. The german spelling of our name in church records was MAYER. My ancestors could also write and I find some records where they sign their name as MAYER. I believe they changed the name to MYERS because that spelling was closer to the English pronunciation. It would have been more accurate to change it to MEYER. Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: Louis E. Mayer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, born 1876 Larry Myers 6/07/09 http://genforum.genealogy.com/mayer/messages/822.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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