what is your last name and do you know the meaning,
last name Schoen, said shane in english, said schoon in german, meaning beauitful
2006-07-05 05:37:36 · 14 answers · asked by strawberryred 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
a good page to look up ansestors is ellisisland.org you can see if your great grandparents came through ellis island, i was able to track down at least one grand parent from each side,
2006-07-06 16:11:25 · update #1
My mother's maiden name was Koepke. It means Jacob.
2006-07-05 09:41:28 · answer #1 · answered by sweet & sour 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only line I know for sure is from Martin Hildebrant Schmidt who came here with his wife, last name Hau? Schmidt became Smith after they were naturalized. My cousin did the whole family tree, and the Ohio clan still has a family reunion the first Sunday of August every year.
2006-07-09 23:57:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My last name is Arlt. My great great great grandfather left Prussia in 1852 to move to America. I am also descended from Dersch, Vollmer, Muhly, Henklemann>>>all german.
2006-07-07 08:23:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My name is Mueller, it was VonMueller when my family came here. I take it to mean "of" the muellers like we were servants or something like that. Dont know what the Mueller part is but I know that in Hamburg where we come from it is pronounced Miller and here it is pronunced muler.
2006-07-05 12:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by bildymooner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schoen, from Schön indeed means "beautiful".
Mueller, from Müller means "miller".
Kinder (pronounced kean-dur) "Children" (plural).
Sorry if you're missing out some of the characters due to your computer codepage settings, I wrote it in original German.
My name is Schadee from Schade meaning "Pitty".
2006-07-05 15:21:06 · answer #5 · answered by Greek Oracle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kuebelstien, don't know if there is a meaning, but my great grandfather said the town was named after our family
2006-07-05 13:06:30 · answer #6 · answered by chico152152 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Ancestors changed our name but in Germany it was Schieldknight. Bearer of the shield. At some point we protected the nobility I suppose.
2006-07-07 01:21:10 · answer #7 · answered by I Care 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
last name is Reichert (pronounced rye-kurt), dont know the meaning. ancesters were German's from Russia, from somewhere in the Volga Valley.
2006-07-07 16:24:48 · answer #8 · answered by william r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kinder and it means "child". Kind of like kindergarten, and in English, it's pronounced "ken-dur". A lot of people say it like "kiinder", with a long "i". But it's a short "i".
2006-07-05 12:41:01 · answer #9 · answered by ddevilish_txnfml 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandmother's maiden name was Melcher. Her mother sent her and her siblings to America to escape the Keiser (sp?). Also, don't know it's meaning.
2006-07-06 00:07:48 · answer #10 · answered by ChCh01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋