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August 13th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Hey Kaston-
My kids hate in when people don’t pronounce our name correctly–SO, why don’t you try it and if it makes a huge difference in correct pronunciation we will join you as fellow “Küsler’s”! 
Since I’ve been Angela “Cuss-ler” for almost 18 years now, I LOVE the idea!
Take care!
Angela
August 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Hmm… Looks like this blog theme doesn’t label the posts with who posted them. This one was actually me.
Anyhow, I might just start using the umlaut on non-legal paperwork and see if it makes a difference.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I have not “legally” changed my name since me and Dean got married 3.5 years ago (the paperwork is in a drawer somewhere). But first we want to make sure that we would not offend any of the family by changing it =) If only there were a way to make “Kolbachinski” easy to pronounce; you would not believe some of the butchering I have had of that part of my name. Wait they butcher my first name too!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Addition: I bet we would not be changing our name after all. I would not be surprised if our ancestors had umlauts, so we would just be putting them back!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Sorry DEAN!!!!
I just assumed it was Kaston! 
I will let YOU do the experiment and get back to me on it!! HA!
Maybe when you sign in at drs’ office etc…where you know they are going to call out your name! Make it a social experiment! AK
August 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I don’t get a vote since my Kusler days are in the past. But I bet people would be a LOT more likely to pronounce it right if they see Küsler in print. And it looks so “ethnic”. Valerie has complained about being a boring white bread person with no discernible ethnicity. I can see Valerie Küsler wearing a dirndl, looking like the St. Pauli Girl and yodeling between bites of strüdel.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Mmmmm…. Strüdel…..
August 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Do i get clogs, too? Am i confusing my ethnicities?
oh well, if there’s strudel involved… excuse me, strüdel….
August 15th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Not sure I want to be labeled pure German which the little doohicki would provide that connotation. Think I’m Heinz 57 till proven otherwise. admit it probably would help with the pronunciation.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
There are very few people that are not mutts these days, and the fact the we look and sound American will imply that we are -like you said- Heinz 57. Plus, I like being unique!
August 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I don’t know- the name probably was first pronounced “cuss-ler” since the name originally was spelled Kussler- then one of the s’s was dropped when they got to america from austria- some great great grandpa that came over- guess it was John Kusler’s dad from Austria. I remember this from some genealogy paper some one did at one time- I think one of the Kusler’s in another state had that info or something. but the little umlauts would probably do the trick if you want it pronounced the way we always have.
kerry
August 18th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I was just taking a guess; I have not done any research into the name at all. I just guessed that is was German because it sounded German =) And it is not uncommon for Germans to use umlauts.