The German Surname Atlas documents the spatial distribution of German surnames in 2005 in a six-volume work containing some 2,000 annotated maps. The fourth volume in the series was recently published ...

The now available sixth volume of the German Surname Atlas (DFA) contains forty-nine sets of maps with a total of 253 detailed maps showing the distribution of surnames derived from given names. The ...

Germany’s justice minister has launched plans to relax the country’s strict restrictions on family names — for example allowing couples to take double-barrelled surnames and pass them on to their ...

Surnames vary substantially both between and within European countries. In Germany, for example, although the majority of the one million different surnames are typically German (eg ‘Müller’, ‘Schmidt ...

“German American Names, 3rd Edition,” by George F. Jones, was an unexpected surprise when I first opened it. I started reading the introduction only to find out that it is the heart of the book at 66 ...

Germans were the largest ethnic group to settle in Wisconsin and Manitowoc County during the 19th century. German surnames are common. Stories of Germans leaving family and friends, trans-Atlantic ...