Yeah, good thing most of my family names are much more rare like Muller, Schmidt, Keller, and Kiefer. ;') Although I do have a Strumpfweber or two. Which I've been meaning to ask about. Not sure if it's a name or the townspeople just didn't know his name at first. Then later included records based on his name. That would make it more challenging. Brian "Still looking for that elusive Johan Adolf Müller from Prussia" On Tue, April 14, 2009 9:37 am, Thierry Dietrich wrote: > Hi all. > > Bauer is among the TOP15 Names with the highest occurrence in Germany.  > Although there is a significantly higher occurrence in the southern half > of Germany, there still is no single county in Germany where this name is > not represented. > > Therefore assuming two randomly selected Bauer's in the U.S. are related > is about as probable as a Smith in Florida is related with a Smith in > Indiana.  ;-) > > If you want to know how frequent a German last name is, you can use > GeoGen, the same tool providing you the geographical distribution of last > names. It will tell you the rank of the last name in the text appearing > before you click "relative" or "absolute" distribution. > > Regards, > > Thierry >   > Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich > > D-61250 Usingen > > > > > ________________________________ > Von: Arden <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Gesendet: Montag, den 13. April 2009, 14:57:19 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [HESSE] Bauer translation help > > Brian, > > I have Bauer's from Saarbrucken, some emigrated and settled in Wisconsin. > > >>I see records of people from Gross-Karben in Assenheim from time to time. >> Not surprising though as I see entries for most of the nearby towns. I >> have not seen any Bauers from there though. I'll have to go through my >> sponsors and see if I have any from there (time consuming). Small world. >> >> Brian >> >> On Sat, April 11, 2009 4:19 pm, [email protected] wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> What town does this family come from?  I have a Maria Barbara Bauer >>> from >>> Gross-Karben ..late 1700s. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Bev W >>> >>> >>> ************** >>> Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for >>> $10 or less. >>> (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >