In a message dated 2/21/2006 geoff_kaiser@... writes: "What is the linkage between Ephraim and Friedrich? I would think that Fritz is just an anglicised version of one or both names."
==How about 'Fraim and Friedrich. They sound quite similar and it is highly reasonable to assume that a boy given the Hebrew name of his Ephraim grandfather would be named Friedrich on his German birth certificate.
==The English form for Friedrich is Frederick. Fritz is not anglicised anything; it is the common Teutonic kinnuy for a Friedrich, as Frantz is the Teutonic kinnuy for a Franzis or Francis, or Frank.
