Kuhlmann-rodewald

Dear Jill,

I think I have seen some of your surnames in W.C. (Nashville,Radom,Posen,Dubois) area in Illinois.

Barbie

Reply-To: Hannover-L <hannover-l@genealogy.net>
>To: hannover-l@genealogy.net
>Subject: Re: [HN] KUHLMANN-RODEWALD
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:34:28 EST
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>Years ago in Germany, everyone that lived in one household had the same
>name.

That is not a fact.

> For example, if a man died and the wife remarried, her new husband

would

>change his name to the former huband's name.

I don't think this is entirely correct. It only happend at times when the
new husband took over den Bauernhof oder das Gut, which had the same name
as the former owner, or let us say: the family was called after the
property.

Gunter Hille