Swiss Mennonite Surnames

Don Kauffmann writes from Edmonton that his source for Swiss Mennonite names is by author Delbert L. Gratz, Was Isch Dini Nahme? What is Your Name? - A Collection of Swiss Family Names, 95 pp., index,  Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA., 1995, revised 1997 (catalog no. 1574 -- USD 8.95 + s&h.

Names are grouped in the following categories:
1. Family Names from First Names
2. Family Names from Place Names
3. Family Names from Characteristics
4. Family Names from Animal Names
5. Family Names from Occupations

Details of names generally are:
1. Name
2. Meaning of Name
3. Swiss Family Name
4. American Spelling(s)
5. Heimat (original location)

In Kinship,
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