Re: Orgin of Jahn name
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In reply to:
Orgin of Jahn name
2/26/00
On our family tombstone the name Jahn has been cut as Iahn.The stone cutter read the "J" (German) as an "I" (English).All other legal works (will and probate, etc.) and obituary have the family as Jahn.I have the paperwork from the monument company that did the work for the family and the "J" could have been seen as an "I" as written in 1892. That the monument was large and probably would have been hard to change is the only reason I can see that it wasn't changed.Maybe that is how your Iahn came about. I have found my family indexed in the "I"s in some records.