Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > if I were Herr Cohen ( hopefully,correct spelling;-)! Advertising > > issues aside :-)! > > > It's spelt "Herr Colen". just one letter off! :) > Mark Rabiner > Oh Ho! Ho! Ho! Mark. You're so funny. ;-)...Of course it was Cohen at some point...First it was something like Kolinsky, back when they fled the Cosacks and the Czar's draft...passed through Poland and Germany, ended up in England. Changed it to Cohen. Came to this country and discovered that every former European Jew was a Cohen or a Levy, so they changed it to Colen. And we were about the only Colen's in existance, until all the Colons from Puerto Rico and similar spots began to change their names to Colen, and now there are zillions of Colens, none of whom it is leicaly I'm related to. (NOTE THE USE OF LEICALY? THAT MAKES THIS ON TOPIC.) :=)