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This is the place to discuss how the names Helmantel, Hellmintoller, Helmandollar, Helmantaller, Huelmantel, Hellmenthaler and 21 other combinations of the German name that exists in the Rhine, Eifel, Hesse and Saarland Germany and Virginia USA,.

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Background on German Spellings

Started by Michael Helmantoler Apr 10, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

What I understand about German first names is that the first name Johann is the patron saints name and Andoni is the business or commonly used name for identification. So Andoni and Georg are…Continue

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Comment by Daphene Willoughby on November 16, 2015 at 11:27am: I haven't gotten back that far in my research, but find that those here in Middle TN have various spellings. Of course, this comes from the different people they dealt with, like census takers. Seems the census takers did not know how to spell, except perhaps phonetically or by the sounds they heard. Thus it created various spellings for the same person/family. I know on my research for the Willoughby name, I have found at least 31 spellings.