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 === Grammatical Changes in German Surnames  ===
 '''Gender and grammar can affect German surname endings.'''
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-*Female surnames often end with '''''"-in". ''''' For example, Barbara Meyer may appear as Barbara Meyerin.&nbsp;Some surnames do end in ''"-in," ''however.&nbsp; To make sure of whether&nbsp;this is a feminine ending for the surname you're looking at, or truly part of the surname, try to find a surname index to the record you are searching, even if it doesn't start until many years later.&nbsp; You could also search pages back and forth in the record looking for a male with that basic surname.&nbsp;&nbsp;
+==== -in ====
+*Surnames of wives and mothers often end with ''-in''.  This is common in Roman Catholic church records written in Latin.  In Latin, suffixes are added to names of people and things (all nouns) to reflect relationships stated in the record.  These suffixes belong to the Latin language, not to the names.  For example, in records of Barbara Meyer's birth, baptism, marriage and her children's births and baptisms, her name may be written Barbara Meyerin but in her own death and burial records it is written Barbara Meyer.
+*Surnames ending in ''-in'' can have the Latin ''-in'' suffix.  An example is the birth record of Maria Louisa Martin, daughter of Ludwig Christoph Martin:  her name may be written Maria Louisa Martinin.
+*To decide if ''-in'' is a Latin suffix or part of the surname, try to find a surname index to the record you are searching, even if it doesn't start until many years later.  You could also search pages back and forth in the record looking for a male with that surname.
+==== -sch, -sche ====
 * In West Low German parlance the ending '''"…sch(e)"''' is sometimes added to surnames of women, related to the standard High German adjective ending "…isch" (cognitive to English "…ish"), suffixed to nouns or adjectives indicating belonging/pertaining to, being of the kind described by the suffixed word: for example, de Smidtsche, is Ms Schmidt (Smith), but literally about the Smithian (the woman pertaining to a man/family named Schmidt).[19]
-*Another form, indicating a female bearer of a surname, was the addition of a genitive '''"s"''', the daughter or wife of Mr. Bäcker (literally Baker) would appear as Ms Bäckers (in German without an apostrophe), as being Bäcker's daughter or wife.<ref>"German name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_name, accessed 12 February 2021.</ref>
+==== -s ====
+*Another form, indicating a female bearer of a surname, was the addition of a genitive '''"s"'''.  A daughter or wife of Mr. Bäcker (literally Baker) would appear as Ms Bäckers (in German without an apostrophe), as being Bäcker's daughter or wife.<ref>"German name", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_name, accessed 12 February 2021.</ref>
 ===Surname Spelling Variations by Dialect===