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Originally Posted by Catfish
 It seems my grandfather despised this nobility nonsense, on the other hand a "von..." does not necessarily mean a title, it maybe just a name hinting of where a person comes from, geographically.
Could be worse, imagine being called a "de Pfeffel" (of german Suebia) 
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My family name was "Americanized" by a bored clerk on Ellis Island.
It was most likely "Zemen" but there's also a chance it could have been
which "tracks" because I used to be a whiz with programable ladder logic.