Surname database

Surname Database

One of the biggest problems in genealogy, and especially in German genealogy, is finding the ancestor's specific place of origin. If you have no information at all about his family, sometimes the only way to find him will be collecting information about the family name in general - when and in which place it is documented -, and following these leads.

Consequently, any evidence about where a certain surname is documented may be helpful for the research. The following files show extracts from our databases - partly based upon the past fifteen years of research, partly based upon extracts from publications stored in our library. They contain:

Surname
Number of different places where this family name appears

We offer lookups in this database for a fee of EUR 20 per family name. For this, you will get the full listings from our database, i.e. including the towns and earliest known years of appearance of the family name in those towns. For additional EUR 20 per family name and place, you will also get copies of the sources the information was taken from.

For an up-to-date conversion of EUR to USD, please visit http://www.fxtop.com.

The database of course is (very) far from being complete, but it will be built up continuously. At the moment, many of the entries refers to Southwest Germany, the prominent area of 18th century emigration to America; but most of the other areas are represented, too.

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Last update: Sabine Schleichert, 2011 January 24