From About.com the following information on the origins and meaning of the Wagner surname with its alternate spellings or Waggoner or Wagoner: WAGNER Definition: From the Germanic "Waganari," meaning wagonmaker or wagon driver. This common occupational surname was often given … Continue reading
From the Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4, from the Ancestry.com website: Treat is an Americanized spelling of German Tritt. Tritt is German: apparently from Old High German tretan ‘to step’. However, a South German family … Continue reading
My father’s mother was Gwen Stout Thompson and her father was Claude James Stout whose father was Jonothan Benjamin Stout whose father was James Madison Stout whose father was Jonothan Stout. All of these Stouts lived at least part of … Continue reading
My Keck Line is the one with my current most problem brick wall. I would like to join the DAR through my patriot ancestor Conrad Frederick Keck but I am stuck on proving the connection from his son Andrew to … Continue reading