I don't know if anyone's particularly interested but here are the notes for the German LoGH Name Research. Any contributions or opinions are welcomed. I think the Free Planets Alliance should be the next research task. Not Found: *Benemunde/Benemünde (Closest Match: Warnemünde) *Funmel *Kalnap (see Calnap) *Legmiza (Closest Match: Leibzig [big city]) *Leiwul (Closest Match: Laibach) *Meivoher (Closest Match: Maivogel) *Olrau *Seclä Found with Notes: Adalbert Ale Alfred Alois Altringen Amarie Annerose Ansbach Anton Armsdorf August Barbarossa Bayerlein Beowulf Bergengrün Berlin Bernhard Bernheim Bittenfeld Blumenhart (was Blumehart) Bolenz Boltik Boris Bracke (was Blakke) Brauhitze (was Brauhitz) Braunschweig Brentahno Bruckdorf (was Bruckdolf) Brünhilde Büro Buxtehude Carnap Cornelius Detlev (was Dähtlich) Dickel Dieter (was Dita) Dietrich Dirxen Dittersdorf (was Dittersdolf) Dominique Dresden (was Droisen) Drewentz Dunkel Ehrenberg Eichendorff (was Eihendolf) Ein Eisenach Elfriede Elisabeth Elsheimer Emil Erlach/Erlacher Ernest Ernst Erwin Eugen Fahrenheit Falsterbo (was Falstrong) Felix Ferdinand (was Fernand) Ferner Feuerbach Flegel Forseti Franz Friedrich Fusenegger Garmisch Geiersberg Gerlache Glaeser/Gläser (not as a name) Gluck Goetz (perferred spelling is Götz) Goldenbaum Griesenbeck (was Grisenbeck) Griess Grillpalzer Gröbner Grotewohl Grüenwald Grüneman Günter Gustav Gustav (was Guzman) Gustavsson (was Gutensonne) [Gute Sonne: good sun, not used for names] Hans Hartarschdatt (was Hardarschdat; means Hard Ass) Hasselback Hauff Hauptmann Heinessen (German: Hainichen) Heinrich Helm Helmut Herbert Heydrich Hildegard Hildesheim (was Hildensheim) Hilmer Hofmeister Holzbauer (was Holtzbauer) Horst Hosinger (was Hosingar) [Hosingar is Nordish] Ingrimm (was Ahsgrimm) [deeply felt anger / fury] Isegrimm [fairy tale name for wolf] (Alternate to Ingrimm) Isak Iserlohn Jakob Joachim Jochen Josef Jotunheim Jürgens Kampfhuber (was Kamfuber) Karl Kasper Kastrop Katholiken (was Patolicken) Kempf Kesseling (was Kessellink; see NOTES at bottom) Kessler (perferred Keßler) Kircheis Kißling Klara Klaus Kleiber Kleingelt Klopstock Knapfsheim (was Knapfsteim) Köhler Kohlrausch Konev Königstiegel (was Konieg Tiegel) [King's pot] Königstiger [Bengal tiger] (Alternate for Konieg Tiegel) Konrad Krusenstern Kümmel (was Künmel) Kurisch (was Kurlich) Kurt Laft Lang Lansberg Lennenkamp (was Lennenkanpt) Leopold Lichtenlade [not an exact match: Lichtenau, Lichtenfels, Lichtenberg] ** Linier (doesn't seem to be a name) Linse (was Linser) Linz Littenheim Lohengramm Lorenz Louis Lubeck Lücke Lutz Magdalena Mainhoff Mariendorf Marika Maximillian Mecklinger Merkatz Moder Molt Muckenberger Müller Müsel Neidhardt Neißebach Neue Sanssouci Oberstein Ölfässer (was Olfesser/Olvesser) Oppenheimer Oskar Osmane (was Osmyer) Ostmark Paul Paumann Raabenhardt (was Raabenardt) Radbruch Ratzel Reckendorf Reinhard (also Rheinhardt) Remscheld Rentenberg Reuentahl Reuental Richter Ritschl Rolf Rubinsky Rudolf Rupert Sabine Sahm (was Saam) Salamander Samuel Sanders Sauken Schast (not as a name) Schaudinn Schenkopp Schleicher Schler Schneider Schuhmacher Schürer Sebastian Seeckt (appears to be named after someone http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/SeecktHans/) Seefeld Seidlitz Servil (was Server) Siebenbürgen (was Silverberche) Siegbert Siegfried Sigismund (was Sigissmunt) Sinzer Skirnir Sombart Sonnenfels Staaden Stauffen Steinhof (also Steinhoff) Steinmetz Sterzer Stockhausen Strauss Streit Susanne (More common than Sussana) Theodor Therese Thoma Tonio Tristan Turneisen Ude Ulrich Vandenberg Vier Viola Volk (was Vork) Vollker Axel Vonkel Wagenseil Wagner Wahlen Wähler Waldenser (was Waldhanser) Waldhauser Walter Wein (was Whin) Welner Werner Werzel Westerland Westfalen (was Westpfahle) [an independent kingdom back in Prussian times] Wiesenhütter Wilhelm Wilhelmi (common) Wilhelmina Willibald Winckler Wolfgang Würmeling (was Würmelink) Note on Kesselling/Kessellink: (Graf von) Kesselink, Kessellink, Kesseling [aristocrat in prussian times, various spellings of the name known]. I went with the prussian name since that's what the Empire is modeled after (and yes, I realize that Kessellink is a Phezzani but remember they were founded by the Empire.) ** Litchenlade as two words means "Light Drawer" which obviously doesn't fit. -- Lee Thompson shadow@nwlink.com ICQ: 19508091