KURT IS GERMAN. ok but..?

Question

My father has kurt as family name. but he is turkish...
Does that means there was a german in my family?:O
maybe because of that my father dont look at all turkish...He is very pale , and have blues eyes...

Answer 1

You put this in the wrong section. But anyway, it would kind of depend when his family came to America and how many generations have blended into the American melting pot by marrying people of other nationalities. Many people when they arrived at Ellis Island couldnt speak English to answer the questions and were given names by the people signing them in - names that sounded like the names they were saying in other languages. So his name very well was something longer that sounded like Kurt and the folks at Ellis abbreviated it. Also, over the generations your family could have mixed with other nationalities - perhaps Scandanavians or other people with blue eyes and fair complexions. Very common - that's why America is the Great Melting Pot. Pax - C.

Answer 2

Kurt means wolf in Turkish and we have it as a family name in Turkish. There are MANY people with the last name kurt actually.
And your father having blue eyes doesn't mean he's not Turkish. My sister is a Turk but she's blonde with green eyes. I've never thought of her having German roots though!
And why don't you ask your father about it?

Answer 3

You may want to repost this under genealogy. P.S. good luck.

Answer 4

I guess krout