kampffenhoff wrote:
I have decided to try this world as it looks good, but puzzled about the name, shouldn't it be spelled Hausenfluke? Sorry to interfere, it's your world you can spell it how you like, but just puzzled.
I am glad you are trying my world and hope you enjoy it.
As for the spelling Housenfluke versus Hausenfluke, I think either and it depends upon your family history. I researched these names for this world at an ancestry web site.
Here is what I learned:
Housen is an "Americanized" form of the German name Hausen. So in Germany you are right. The 1920s census has 1 Hausenfluke in Texas, but no Housenfluke. However, today if I do searches on both names, I get hits in Google for both in Texas.
Since the story is these families settled in these islands and were the first European settlers, I should have named the island and family "Hausenfluke". But...I have the name all over and this was a Sims 2 family I played using "Housenfluke". So, I am going to stick with Housenfluke and hope I have not offended anyone.
Thanks for your interest and comment.
