Did your wife like to play with tanks when she was little?
:-)
LOL! No but she is very interested in military history. I’ve wanted to do a genealogy search but she’s afraid to be disappointed. My guess is Rommel senior(Rommel’s father) had a brother or cousin who emigrated here. I don’t imagine Rommel to be too common a name in America. Well, outside the German-American community which is quite substantial.