List of all surnames

If you click on a family name in the list on the right, you will be taken to all persons who have this surname. Selecting the desired name leads you to his family tree.

It used to be quite common for the same name to be spelled differently because the names were mostly written by ear and the writer - often the pastor - sometimes translated and wrote them into High German, sometimes he wrote but also in Low German, the then popular dialect.

In order not to have to list all the different spellings of a name, I have tried to "standardize" names to the current spelling. This means, for example, that you will find the names Scharenberg and Scharpenbarg under the surname Scharnberg, under Zingelmann also the names Singelmann and Sengelmann, just to name a few examples. If you select a family name in this list of names, the following alphabetical list of names will also show you all similarly written but identical surnames. This can be names that used to be spelled differently than they used to be today, but they can also be names that sound the same with different spellings today as for example Schmitt and Schmidt.