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Theodore Francis Gunther (Guenther) - So you may be wondering...

Started by Amy Martha McClosky on Wednesday, September 4, 2013
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Amy Martha McClosky
9/4/2013 at 10:19 PM

Are the Gunther's ethnically German or Polish?

The answer is: German.

Grandma Merrill sang in German. And we have many examples of the written German language in a family bible and in journals that belonged to Grandma Merrill's brother Francis.

There are significant differences between the written and spoken German and Polish.

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9/4/2013 at 10:59 PM

This means that the name probably originally was spelled Günther, but Günther is usually a given name.
Amy Martha McClosky
9/4/2013 at 11:26 PM

Thank you! We suspect the surname was changed when our grandparents came to the states. The correct spelling was also lost for my husbands Russian-Polish grandfather as well. Makes searching for original documents difficult to say the least.

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