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Re: Origin of the surname "yeakle"
Posted by: Ron Myers	Date: May 08, 2001 at 18:46:37
In Reply to: Origin of the surname "yeakle" by Matt Yeakle	of 177

The name is probably German/Swiss. The Y was really a J in German and the ea was an umlauted a. You will find different spellings for the same person depending on whether an English person was writing the name or a German was writing the name.

One early will I have written in English by a German gives Jagly (with an umlaut over the a). This became Yeagley in my branch of the family.

I also find the g and k to be interchangeable in the earlier records. Then after a time one branch of the family will settle on g and the other k.

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