John wrote:
It's a old German name. My grandparents on both sides immigrated in the
late 20s with my parents as very young children to New York City. I'm a
first generation American and I found out not too long ago that I came
within 2 weeks of being a South African. My grandfather had applied to
both the US and South Africa for immigration and the US paper work came
back first. I have a number of distant cousins over there now.

Kewl...

I was within three days of being an Auzzie myself. My father had
applied to both the US and Australia for immigration and the US paper
work came back first. :^)

The Monk