In a message dated 3/27/2009 7:35:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Deao Kathleen: And not to forget the Romans who were there before the Huguenots in the Rhein,Eifel regions..all over.See the travel show from Burt Wolf,he was talking about the Romans there. We had neigbors with an Italien surname from the Eifel mountains,living in Ffm. Look if they were Luth.or Catholic and then again our names of our Huguenots were French + Italien coming from the borders. Doris. **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)

I   Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich Bartholomäus-Arnoldi-Straße 22 D-61250 Usingen ________________________________ Von: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Sonntag, den 29. März 2009, 21:25:01 Uhr Betreff: Re: [HESSE] Mainz, Rheinhessen, Hessen In a message dated 3/27/2009 7:35:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: Deao   Kathleen: And not to forget the Romans who were there  before                   the Huguenots in the Rhein,Eifel regions..all over.See the travel show from  Burt                   Wolf,he  was talking about the Romans there.                   We  had neigbors with an Italien surname from the Eifel mountains,living in  Ffm.                   Look if they were Luth.or Catholic and then again our names of our  Huguenots                   were  French + Italien coming from the borders. Doris. **************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

I am not really sure what you mean by referring to the romans. The Roman empire indeed had two provinces "Germania Superior" and "Germania Inferior". Most of "Germania" was never occupied by the romans. However, this is completely irrelevant to our discussion.  Firstly because after centuries of trouble at the Roman borderlines with Germanic tribes various Germanic tribes overrun the Roman empire, which consecutively disappeared. It is more than likely that most roman citizens were either killed or escaped to the south. Even this is irrelevant for our discussion, as surnames in general firstly appeared around 1200 in the Rhein area and much later the more you go east or north. Stable / contant surnames were established may be around 14-1500s in the Rhein-area and in some areas it took up to the 1800s to establish stable surnames. There is no way roman surnames could have "survived" for so long. And by the way, Deao also does not sound quite latin either.  ;-) By for now, Thierry   Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich D-61250 Usingen ________________________________ Von: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Sonntag, den 29. März 2009, 21:25:01 Uhr Betreff: Re: [HESSE] Mainz, Rheinhessen, Hessen In a message dated 3/27/2009 7:35:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: Deao   Kathleen: And not to forget the Romans who were there  before                   the Huguenots in the Rhein,Eifel regions..all over.See the travel show from  Burt                   Wolf,he  was talking about the Romans there.                   We  had neigbors with an Italien surname from the Eifel mountains,living in  Ffm.                   Look if they were Luth.or Catholic and then again our names of our  Huguenots                   were  French + Italien coming from the borders. Doris. **************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