2007-08-06 21:40:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
. from a web site: "... Minskers; Although the actual origin of the family name is lost in the mists of time, it appears that the original spelling was Meinzer, Menzer or Mentzer, and the name seems to have meant "One Who Comes from Mainz", or a "man from Mainz". Mainz is a city on the Rhine near Wiesbaden, Germany..
"The boy's name Ethan \e-than\ is pronounced EE-than. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "firmness, steadfastness, constancy".
.......... so it's likely your heritage was Jewish German. .
2007-08-09 02:40:02 · answer #1 · answered by jim bo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ancestry.com gives no records for Ethan Mentzer, and you have supplied no birth and death dates. However, it does note that most Mentzer immigrants came from Bremen, Germany (6).
2007-08-07 07:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋