[FactolSarin]

My family's last name was probably Schaefer in Germany. The earliest graves in America show them as Scheffert instead but shortly after they became "Shuford" which I guess they thought sounded more English (they were here pre-Revolution).

I always find it funny they did such a bad job of anglicizing it. Shuford doesn't really sound any more English to my ears.

[crazygringo]

Ha, that's a funny one -- Shuford is an unusual one. If they'd gone with "Shefford", it would have sounded 100% Anglicized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shefford,_Bedfordshire