You never stop learning! I guess it was a mistake to answer to a request about the origine of a name. I am drowned now by similar inquiries. Please understand that it is quite impossible to reply. Regards Ernst Dierich. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy" <DavidandKathy73@hotmail.com> To: "Ernst Dierich" <edierich@t-online.de> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [PFALZ] Surname origin and meaning > Ernst, > > Could I request a lookup for three surnames origin and meaning? > > Trittebach (now Tritapoe) > Ehalt (now Ahalt) > Pfaffenberger (now Poffenberger) > > Thank you for taking the time to consider my request. > > Kathy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ernst Dierich" <edierich@t-online.de> > To: <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 3:53 AM > Subject: Re: [PFALZ] Surname origin and meaning > > > > Hello, > > HUFFMANN is certainly a misspelling of HOFFMANN, itsself deriving from > > HOFMANN. HOF means courtyard or farm or (noble) court and MANN is simply > > man. > > > > Accordingly to Gottschald: Deutsche Namenskunde, 5. edition, Berlin New > York > > 1982 HOFMANN can have one of the following origins: > > 1) a man living at a noble court (mansion) > > 2) a man running a farm (a farmer) > > 3) a man living and working at a farm. > > Regards > > Ernst Dierich. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Lbwiese@aol.com> > > To: <PFALZ-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 12:47 AM > > Subject: [PFALZ] Surname origin and meaning > > > > > > > I am trying to help out a friend's child who is doing a genealogy report > > for > > > school. He needs to know the origin and meaning of the name "Huffman." > I > > > hope someone can help me. > > > > > > About 90% of my ancestors came from the Pfalz area. But I do not have > any > > > books that give name origins or meanings. I know that there is at least > > one > > > book which gives this information, but I do not own it and it is not in > > our > > > library. > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > > Lois in Lexington, KY > > > > > > > > > ==== PFALZ Mailing List ==== > > > Going on vacation longer than 4 days? Go to > > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/PFALZ.html > > > to unsubscribe > > > > >