Posts in October 13, 2016

Your relative may have given two of their children names that in their native language sounded similar, but were different. Those two names could have been anglicized or translated into the same name. My great-grandparents had a daughter Anna and Anke, named for their grandmothers. Anke is frequently anglicized to Anna. To use names that sounded different, the one named Anna used her middle name of Margaret and Anke used Anna. An earlier couple had sons named Janns and Johann, both of whom went by John.