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Topic: Sharing Useful Tips: GERMANY and E. Europe (Read 16568 times)
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marilynesther
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Well thats a surprise! Thanks again, will take a look. 
All the best, Marilyn
ps - you're not caught up in all those nasty floods, are you?
what a tragic time for all the folks involved...M
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BAIRD - Kirkcudbright, Scotland
RAMSDEN - Lancashire, Yorkshire, England
SILCOCK, GREAVES, LORD, GREENALL - Lancashire, England
HOWELL - Stroud,Gloucestershire; Westminster,
Middlesex, England
COUSINS, DAVIES, KING - Westminster, Middlesex,
England
WALKER, ARCHER
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Rena
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James McCarthy
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I didn't know where to put this link which is of the German-Canadian Museum of Applied History. This is devoted to the Braunchweig region of Germany and gives details of various armies including names.
http://home.ica.net/~claus/
Rena
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Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy
MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell
Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar
Ross, Urray:Mackenzie
Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell
Perthshire: Brown Ferguson
Wales: McCarthy, Thomas
England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells
Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
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Rozy
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Hello searchers 
If i keep hitting a brick wall, i send a e-mail to the city where my great-aunt,
her husband and daughter where born. My great-aunt and her family, moved from Brighton to Merseburg. She was born British, her husband German.
Don't give up!!
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carinthiangirl
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this is possible - if a german speaks Tau and an english person write the word down he may come to Thaw about the pronouncing.
as example i have seen by the name Riedl which became americanized Reatl as both sound similar - the one spoken in german and the other in english. 
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memartens
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Yes, there can be regional surnames. I was able to localize one of my family lines to a single county in Bavaria by the simple expedient of searching the German telephone directory for that name. I was very lucky in that case. It seems that, except for the branch that emigrated, the family has never strayed very far from home.
Good luck,
Margaret
Stupid question, probably, however:
Can German surnames be regionalised, like, are certain surnmes common to a particular area of Germany. I'm looking for Fidell Beurle (anglicised to Bailey on the 1861 census) but the census only gives birthplace as Germany, approximately 1811.
Also, I had Fidell (or Fidel) down as a Spanish name. Has anyone researching in Germany come across this first name often or is it a hint at more Mediterranean origins (as the family 'rumour' goes)?
Any help appreciated!!
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Martens, Ketelhut, Daeschlein, Gladwin/Gladding, Dingman, Wirth, Snyder, Vanness,
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carinthiangirl
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Re: Ruzicka
« Reply #38 on: Friday 12 March 10 14:25 UTC (UK) » |
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"Also surenames. I have a Ruzicka surname in my tree for a female. WRONG! Ruzicka is the male version of the name Ruzickova is the female version."
the - ova was not always taken - i also have a ggggrandmother which had the name Ruzicka not Ruzickova. she was the mother of my gggrandmother from Medlice in Moravia (Czech Republic).
also had female cousins of my grandmother who
immigrated to USA before 100 years. the one stated at arriving her name as Skaryd, the other as Skarydova. both was usual that time.
"I assumed my grandparents were born in Czechoslovakia because I googled and found thier birth place. So I assumed (again) that they were Czech. WRONG! The town where they were born was THEN in Austria."
what was the lastname of your grandparents and the town they came from?
Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) were austrian crownlands that time, but if they had czech names , so also were from czech orgin. or did they have german lastnames, so they were germans (Sudeten-germans)?
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