Bee-Dubya-Ell, I hear what you say about de-Americanizing names.

As I said above, I was brought up in a family that called "Oesterreich" "OH-strich", and only much later learned how it was pronounced in German, and what it meant.

When I was still in high school, in '47 or '48, my brother ( 5 years older) and his young wife moved to Duluth, where he had found an excellent job. They found that there was another "Oesterreich" family there which was numerous, well-known, and respected there, who pronounced the name "AY-strike", which is within shouting distance of the proper German pronunciation. They decided there was no use fighting a well-known pronunciation, and changed their pronunciation to suit.

To this day, my brother's branch of the family are all AY-strikes, and mine and my children's are still OH-striches.

Dave Oesterreich