From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Sun May 06 2007 - 11:05:18 CDT
Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> I think you won't find any Anna Weisz - her name would be
>> Anna Weiß. The SZ should be unambiguous wrt German names.
> You are wrong. See http://tinyurl.com/2jhedr .
If I understand the genealogy page correctly that's a family
with ancestors in Temesvar, so that could be an attempt to
emulate szlig by sz in a country where szlig isn't used. Or
maybe it's a genuine Hungarian or Romanian name unrelated to
the German word for "white".
Frank
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