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Originally Posted by KC911
On my mom's side, a big thick book was printed mebbe 50 years ago tracing it back to the 1600s around Stuttgart, including the name change (Americanized spelling) and the first one here back in the early 1700s .... I know where his grave is.
Dad's side, also going back to the 1600s near Stuttgart, including an Americanized name change was done mebbe 30-40 years ago including DNA stuff, but way before the internet and these web sites.
Coincidental that both branches ended up here locally in the early 1700s by totally different paths.
I'm expecting a knock on my door any day now fwiw....
signed,
J Higgins  |
Heh heh... I've got pictures of my German Opa packing mules to hump supplies over the Balkan Mountains during WWI. That's as far back as we go on mom's side, the Backensfelds.
On my dad's side, the Irish side, we learned our family name is actually an Anglicization of the old Gaelic name Ó hUiginn, which means 'descendant of Uiginn', or "of Uiginn". Uiginn is the Gaelic version of the Old Norse víkingr or Viking.
Lots of old family photos of the Ň hUiginns climbing out of their long boats onto the Irish shores back in the late 900's. They're getting kinda yellowed, and starting to curl up a bit, though.