<div dir="ltr">Many Ashkenazi surnames retain the Yiddish (i.e. germanic) orthography where Alif, Ayin and Yud (and vav) represent vowels.  It would make sense to romanize according to Yiddish rules.<br>i.e פריעד = Fried not Friyed<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Kuperman, Aaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akup@loc.gov" target="_blank">akup@loc.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Its rather obvious the person does not pronounce the yud as a “Y” sound, based on how person Romanized it themselves (which presumably is based on pronunciation,
 not an artificial scheme).  --Aaron<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Heb-naco [mailto:<a href="mailto:heb-naco-bounces@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">heb-naco-bounces@<wbr>lists.osu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heidi G Lerner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 23, 2017 12:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> heb-naco<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Heb-NACO] help with romanization of surname<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I have the following surname:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="color:black">ריעדער</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I have a romanized form on t.p. verso: Rieder<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I am not sure how to romanize the Hebrew:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">One thought is: Riyeder?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Any suggestions?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks, Heidi<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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